Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
Quotes to Explore
-
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
-
I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
-
My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
-
Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
-
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
-
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
-
A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
-
You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
-
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
-
We've never been anti-Semitic.
-
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
-
Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
-
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
-
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
-
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
-
The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
-
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
-
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
-
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
-
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
-
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
-
He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
-
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
-
I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
