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A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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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.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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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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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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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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I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.
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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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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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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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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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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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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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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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I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.
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