Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

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• I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Today
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Forever

• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Think
  • Always

• Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Life
  • Real
  • Goals

• I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Player

• The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • May
  • Design

• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Long
  • Future
  • Transform

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• I'm painfully middle class.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Class
  • Middle
  • Middle-class

• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Art
  • History
  • Poetry

• I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

  

  Criss Angel
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

  

  Adam Green
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Competition