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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
Viggo Mortensen
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
Viggo Mortensen
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's my best friend. That's not a given, it's a process.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.
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I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.
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There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.
Viggo Mortensen
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There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority.
Viggo Mortensen
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
Viggo Mortensen
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I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.
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I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.
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Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
Viggo Mortensen
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The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.
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My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.
Viggo Mortensen
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have they know where they are.
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Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political leanings of anyone who tries to make that case - is a load of self-justifying, destructive horseshit.
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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
Viggo Mortensen
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