Viggo Mortensen Quotes

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  

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• There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

  

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• When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

  

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• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

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• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  

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• I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

  

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• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

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• I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

  

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• I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Children
  • Always
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• You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

  

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• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

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• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

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• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

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• Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

  

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• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

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• I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

  

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• No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

  

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• Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

  

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• Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

  

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• My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.

  

  Selah Louise Marley
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• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions