Viggo Mortensen Quotes
People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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No man may make another free.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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Nobody picks on a strong man.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
