Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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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.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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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.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
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I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
