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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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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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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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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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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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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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You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.
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When people say that entertainers should know your place, they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.
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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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Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.
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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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If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking Wow, we have to watch out.
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