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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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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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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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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. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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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 think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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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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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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