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I'm an optimist I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Viggo Mortensen

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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.
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Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.
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I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.
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We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
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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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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it’s just an extension of childhood play… Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don’t need any director telling them “You really have to believe in it.” They believe in it completely.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
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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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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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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 we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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