Viggo Mortensen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
-
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.
-
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
-
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
-
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
-
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
-
That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
-
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.
-
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
-
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
-
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.
-
I'm painfully middle class.
-
With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album you can totally hear they're trying to write a song for 'Grey's Anatomy' and it doesn't work. It's just one of those things that has to feel genuine to last a long time.
-
I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
-
May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
-
Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
-
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
-
I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
