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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

Viggo Mortensen

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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
Actor
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Viggo Peter Mortensen
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In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking Wow, we have to watch out.
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Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.
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I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.
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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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You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
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I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.
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When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I'm an optimist I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
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I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.
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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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