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To find a good story, you’re generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn’t mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

Viggo Mortensen

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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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As regards Hillary Cinton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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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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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'
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I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
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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 take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.
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I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's my best friend. That's not a given, it's a process.
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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 grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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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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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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