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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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