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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
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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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As Martin Luther King said, Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
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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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That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.
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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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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
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Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.
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Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.
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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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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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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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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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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it’s just an extension of childhood play… Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don’t need any director telling them “You really have to believe in it.” They believe in it completely.
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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.
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
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