Viggo Mortensen quote: "I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile."

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...
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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 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

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of con...
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. Search theory, wh...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to th...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Acade...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college prep...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to commun...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
DALE T. MORTENSEN

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a...
DALE T. MORTENSEN

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

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