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.
-
I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
-
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.
-
I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
-
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.
-
Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
-
That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
-
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
-
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.
-
Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
-
When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
-
Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.
-
I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.
-
I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
