
“The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.”
"Fastest Growing Heartache In The West," from Beaucoups Of Blues (1970)
From the TV documentary The Importance of Being Morrissey (2003); also quoted in "Return of the lone stranger" by Mark Simpson in Guardian Unlimited (31 May 2003)
In interviews etc., About himself and his work
“The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.”
"Fastest Growing Heartache In The West," from Beaucoups Of Blues (1970)
“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”
Winokur, Jon. The Portable Curmudgeon, p. 174. http://books.google.com/books?id=V0DUAXBkf_0C Plume, 1992. ISBN 0452266688
Attributed
“Normality is a boring uniformity, madness a lively uniqueness.”
Original: La normalità è una noiosa uniformità, la follia una vivace unicità.
Source: prevale.net
“A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.”
On why more American actors don't take roles in foreign-language films as he does, The New York Times, " Bilingualism Steps Into a Leading Role http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/movies/viggo-mortensen-and-other-actors-take-roles-in-foreign-films.html" (March 31, 2013).
“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”
Source: Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts
James K. Hahn, Mayor of Los Angeles, California, United States of America, January 12, 2005
About, 2000s