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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.
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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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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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The first decade of your life is really important it's formative.
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I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.
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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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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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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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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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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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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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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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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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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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Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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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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