Viggo Mortensen quotes
- From the movie: Hidalgo
“- Preston Webb: I didn't join this race to finish in second place!
- Frank Hopkins: Why did you then?” - From the movie: Eastern Promises
“Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things.”
- From the movie: Eastern Promises
“- Nikolai Luzhin: I need you to take Semyon out of the picture. I want you to arrest him.
- Yuri: Arrest him for what?
- Nikolai Luzhin: Rape. The girl was 14.
- Yuri: And of course she will testify?
- Nikolai Luzhin: She is dead, but she had Semyon's baby. If you can prove baby was his, and girl was underage, that is statutory rape. You have...” (continue)(continue reading) “- Frodo: What do you want?
- Aragorn: A little more caution from you; that is no trinket you carry.
- Frodo: I carry nothing.
- Aragorn: Indeed. I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.”- From the movie: A Dangerous Method
“- Sigmund Freud: And how is your little Russian patient?
- Carl Jung: As I told you after the initial abreaction, there was the most dramatic improvement. We’ve enrolled her in a medical school at the University where she’s doing extremely well. She’s a walking advertisement for the effectiveness of psych analysis.
- Sigmund Freud:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Hidalgo
“I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.”
“It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.”
“I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.”
“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it.”
- From the movie: The Reflecting Skin
“- Cameron Dove: What are you looking at?
- Seth Dove: Nothing.
- Cameron Dove: Doesn't look like nothing.” - From the movie: Eastern Promises
“Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up.”
“- Frodo: Where are you taking us?
- Aragorn: Into the wild.”- From the movie: 28 Days
“I only work every fifth day. Hell else am I supposed to do with my time?”
- From the movie: Appaloosa
“- Allison French: I am mortified that you saw me with no clothes on.
- Everett Hitch: Oh, Allie, it was an incomparable pleasure.” - From the movie: Eastern Promises
“- Anna: My uncle has gone missing, since I told you about him translating the diary.
- Nikolai Luzhin: Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-star hotel. I was ordered to send him to heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland. He is old-school, he understands things... exile or death.” - From the movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- From the movie: The Prophecy
“- Katherine: Oh My God!
- Lucifer: God? God is love. I don't love you.” - From the movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
“- Gimli: Toss me.
- Aragorn: What?
- Gimli: I cannot jump the distance, you'll have to toss me. ...Don't tell the Elf.
- Aragorn: Not a word.” “- Gimli: Where do you think you're going?
- Aragorn: Not this time, Gimli. This time you must stay.
- Legolas: Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of Dwarves?
- Gimli: You may as well accept it. We're going with you, laddy.”“- Aragorn: Are you frightened?
- Frodo: Yes.
- Aragorn: Not nearly frightened enough. I know what hunts you.”“- Aragorn: I do not know what strength is in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail.
- Boromir: Our people, our people. I would have followed you, my brother... my captain... my king.”- From the movie: The Prophecy
“I was the first angel, loved once above all others, but like all true love... one day it withered on the vine.”
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