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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The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad.
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Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
