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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

Viggo Mortensen

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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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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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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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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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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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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.
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In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
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I think we're on the wrong path in this country and have been for a while. People are in their camps divided by region, economic situation, race, religion, ideology. And there's a lot of just staying in your camp using technology to bolster your case without actually debating with other people, without discussing.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'
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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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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.
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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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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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