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Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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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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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political leanings of anyone who tries to make that case - is a load of self-justifying, destructive horseshit.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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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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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.
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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 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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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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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 look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.
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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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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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