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Here's where we are, this is what's happening. So do something, or get out of the kitchen.

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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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It's easy to get depressed and think, Well, what's the point? But it's the same as, Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights. You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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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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People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.
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In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.
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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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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
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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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Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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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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It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'
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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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It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.
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A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
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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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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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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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