Viggo Mortensen Quotes
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've been things and seen places.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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You have to put your kids first no matter what; that's how I feel.
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You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two!
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.
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After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
