Viggo Mortensen Quotes

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Viggo Mortensen

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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Good
  • School
  • Friends

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• You have to be yourself.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • True
  • Mankind

• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Tell
  • Early
  • Storytelling

• Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Political
  • Audience
  • Tough

• I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Think
  • Doubt

• How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Important
  • Light

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Single
  • Moment

• Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Important
  • Realize
  • Islam

• I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • American
  • Fire

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Done
  • Rest
  • Body

• I spent my life making fashion an art form.

  

  Charles James
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Source

• What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Art
  • You
  • Alive