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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize.
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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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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
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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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I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.
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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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A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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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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Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things they are my way of communicating.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority.
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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 don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
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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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To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.
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