Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
Viggo Mortensen
Related Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago... JESS ROW If you're confused about what to do, it's a sign that your enemy is winning. TOBA BETA In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others. RAHEEL FAROOQ The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.” ROSS ELDER Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective. TOBA BETA Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great. NELSON RIOS [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’... JON EDGELL REVISITING THE LIST 1. Kiss Estelle Okay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. A... FIONA WOOD To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or eq... VIGGO MORTENSEN Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are m... VIGGO MORTENSEN There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a ... VIGGO MORTENSEN In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. VIGGO MORTENSEN I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I s... VIGGO MORTENSEN I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it'... VIGGO MORTENSEN I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very muc... VIGGO MORTENSEN When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with pai... VIGGO MORTENSEN I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. VIGGO MORTENSEN I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people. VIGGO MORTENSEN I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cul... VIGGO MORTENSEN Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. VIGGO MORTENSEN Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you m... VIGGO MORTENSEN I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything. VIGGO MORTENSEN I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy. VIGGO MORTENSEN It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt... VIGGO MORTENSEN I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others. VIGGO MORTENSEN If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other w... VIGGO MORTENSEN If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly... VIGGO MORTENSEN I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it. VIGGO MORTENSEN I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being i... VIGGO MORTENSEN We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and caref... VIGGO MORTENSEN This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of ... VIGGO MORTENSEN I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was ... VIGGO MORTENSEN One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or eve... VIGGO MORTENSEN I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena. VIGGO MORTENSEN You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democr... VIGGO MORTENSEN There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's... VIGGO MORTENSEN One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fas... VIGGO MORTENSEN Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose th... VIGGO MORTENSEN Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you m... VIGGO MORTENSEN At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of... VIGGO MORTENSEN Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their vei... VIGGO MORTENSEN I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and i... VIGGO MORTENSEN It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a who... VIGGO MORTENSEN Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to ... VIGGO MORTENSEN Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're ... VIGGO MORTENSEN I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for s... VIGGO MORTENSEN I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to t... VIGGO MORTENSEN I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on... VIGGO MORTENSEN You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an a... VIGGO MORTENSEN I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would b... VIGGO MORTENSEN Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a di... VIGGO MORTENSEN I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's ... VIGGO MORTENSEN You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or somet... VIGGO MORTENSEN Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple. VIGGO MORTENSEN I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a rel... VIGGO MORTENSEN I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a... VIGGO MORTENSEN You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the... VIGGO MORTENSEN To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It... VIGGO MORTENSEN In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.' VIGGO MORTENSEN I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful ar... VIGGO MORTENSEN 'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very w... VIGGO MORTENSEN More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product... VIGGO MORTENSEN I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings an... VIGGO MORTENSEN There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excu... VIGGO MORTENSEN [(Entertainment Weekly) -- Anyone who has seen the attention-grabbing trailer for] A History of Viol... VIGGO MORTENSEN If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, ... VIGGO MORTENSEN Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do mu... VIGGO MORTENSEN As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vin... VIGGO MORTENSEN I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the ... VIGGO MORTENSEN What´s the most especial thing about being a father? Everything. VIGGO MORTENSEN It brought up real emotion, real fear, a fear of not knowing what exists in me. VIGGO MORTENSEN It's hard to be objective about it, ... But it's one of the movies I most like. It's the most comple... VIGGO MORTENSEN When you say mainstream, that usually implies mediocre. And this is not mediocre. There's probably a... VIGGO MORTENSEN It's a simple narrative on the surface, ... The setting, certainly. And there are certain things tha... VIGGO MORTENSEN See you at church. VIGGO MORTENSEN Lord of the Rings. VIGGO MORTENSEN I mean, I've been around a long time compared to a lot of other actors. I mean, I've been working on... VIGGO MORTENSEN It's also just weird getting that much fan mail from strangers. I may just have to say that if I'm d... VIGGO MORTENSEN Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn&... VIGGO MORTENSEN I have no idea what 'method actor' means. VIGGO MORTENSEN It's one of the best roles I've ever played, VIGGO MORTENSEN When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New... VIGGO MORTENSEN It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them wi... VIGGO MORTENSEN I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on... VIGGO MORTENSEN What´s the most especial thing about being a father? Everything. VIGGO MORTENSEN Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and u... VIGGO MORTENSEN I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead. VIGGO MORTENSEN We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. T... VIGGO MORTENSEN I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're wi... VIGGO MORTENSEN Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character,and usually an ... VIGGO MORTENSEN I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize th... VIGGO MORTENSEN Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the ... VIGGO MORTENSEN Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay p... VIGGO MORTENSEN In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. VIGGO MORTENSEN When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way o... VIGGO MORTENSEN People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier. VIGGO MORTENSEN In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are... VIGGO MORTENSEN Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opi... VIGGO MORTENSEN It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go... VIGGO MORTENSEN When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people b... VIGGO MORTENSEN I have no idea what they'll think of us. The game starts zero to zero. Who knows what can happen fro... CRAIG MORTENSEN Coach Nutt was gracious enough to allow Alex back into the Razorback family. Alex is very humbled by... CHRIS MORTENSEN Striving for the impossible is better than striving for nothing. SCOTT MORTENSEN (Regis) established themselves right away. Their tempo was tough for our girls to match. CRAIG MORTENSEN Courage is serving a cause that is greater than yourself. SCOTT MORTENSEN Unfortunately, a lot of coaches have grasped the concept of self promotion and Tom never cared about... CHRIS MORTENSEN For what Angie does, she's probably the best in the league. If coaches didn't prepare for her they w... CRAIG MORTENSEN It's obvious how much they've improved and made this team what it is. They've been consistent for a ... CRAIG MORTENSEN Their press hurt us. Glen�--wood was playing well; we wanted to keep it close. CRAIG MORTENSEN Foul trouble can hurt us. We don't have a lot of depth. CRAIG MORTENSEN We went to the Green River tournament with the hope there would be more competition. Unfortunately t... CRAIG MORTENSEN The second time around we need to stay focused and stay disciplined. We could still have a big game ... CRAIG MORTENSEN (Montrose) missed their chance to win it, and we gave a sigh of relief. Then we got the tip and went... CRAIG MORTENSEN We have to break the first line of their press. If we do that, we'll be OK. If we don't, we won't be... CRAIG MORTENSEN You never know if that means anything until you face each other. Maybe we were just that dominant be... CRAIG MORTENSEN Markie is going to outwork her opponent. To go from playing a couple of minutes a game last year to ... CRAIG MORTENSEN When I was covering them, they had nothing and the league knew it. I mean, in 1986 David Archer led ... CHRIS MORTENSEN I would think this labor shortage is limited enough where it can be solved by moving the labor into ... ERIC MORTENSEN What happens when we encounter a culture whose norms are very different from our own? Can we impose ... ERIC MORTENSEN So you walk into them and say, 'This is wrong! Take it away!' But wrong according to whom? ERIC MORTENSEN It will be tough to qualify for that one. . . . You get to state, there are tons of fast girls. RACHELLE MORTENSEN 'Stunning' is a word. But you really can't describe it. TONY MORTENSEN It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this. TONY MORTENSEN The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. 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