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Viggo Mortensen Inspirational Quotes (215)

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To find a good story, you’re generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn’t mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.
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Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
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In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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As you get older, you get stuck in your ways just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
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When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.
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The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script? To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
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Once you learn the idea of what a good guy is, you want your dad to be a good guy, and when your dad lets you down and doesn't act like a good guy, it's disappointing and can make you angry as you see it happen, which is beautiful and very believable.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.
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If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking Wow, we have to watch out.
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We all have secrets, some secrets bigger than others, is a normal human thing.
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