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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.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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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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I have to say that I think Bernie Sanders is the first politician since Dennis Kucinich that I've been truly inspired by. Where you actually are truly speaking truth to power, in a legitimate way and in an unpretentious and very straightforward way.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.
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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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Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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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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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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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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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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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.
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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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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
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