Viggo Mortensen Quotes

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Viggo Mortensen

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• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Art
  • Character
  • Fashion

• What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Want
  • Death
  • Missing

• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Brother
  • Doctor
  • Engineer

• I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Done
  • Everything
  • Ever

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Remember
  • American
  • Reading

• In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Shopping
  • Taxes

• I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
  • Me
  • Weight

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Purpose
  • Dance
  • Step

• I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Financial
  • Said
  • Collapse

• What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Great
  • History
  • Moral

• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Children
  • Parenting

• America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • God
  • Country
  • Why

• I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Long
  • Live

• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Blessed

• I keep in touch with what's real.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Real
  • Keep
  • Touch

• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself