Viggo Mortensen Quotes

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Viggo Mortensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 20, 1958

Topics

MusicGardeningWalkingDoingEnjoy

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Andrew Carnegie

MenLineStuckChosenWhoOne Line

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Robert Peel

PoliticsMeFactsSeemFewLeast

Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Matthew McConaughey

LifeMyselfBeachMeDinnerChurch

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Rita Coolidge

ChallengeExcellenceMeChallenges

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

Ron Silver

InfluenceLoseRunWhyOffice

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

Mary Tyler Moore

WayTurnOutSomeDidCharacters

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Michel Hazanavicius

MusicSilencePaintingLanguageLike

I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.

Lisa Madigan

SuccessTeacherI AmBlackAfrica

No one gave a crap that I was the kid from 'Free Willy'. You're not in some wispy fantasyland where everyone's telling you 'yes' all the time, which happens a lot to actors.

Jason James Richter

TimeFreeYouKidEveryoneYes

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Christian Lous Lange

WorldReadingCreateNewspaperOver

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

Christian Scott

BrotherParentsMeBookBelieveYou

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

Chuck Palahniuk

MyselfCultureFunStupidThink

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