Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

Viggo Mortensen

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• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Working

• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Religion
  • Happiness

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Know
  • Single

• Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Work
  • Done
  • Boring

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Up
  • She
  • Reading

• Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Very
  • Iran
  • Effective

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
  • Modern
  • Fairness

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Orphan

• When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

  

  William James
  • Action
  • Inspiration
  • Emotion

• It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Luck
  • Times
  • Seems

• You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Actors
  • Musician
  • Hollywood

• But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Mean

• And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • People
  • Way
  • Special

• I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Rehearsing