Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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The injuries worry me because they all seem to be long term.
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I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
