Viggo Mortensen Quotes

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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…
• Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
• We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out…
• You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
• 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…
• You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
• In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his…
• I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
• I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've…
• As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless…
• Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
• I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.
• People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.
• When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near…
• 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.
• Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like…
• I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the world as much…
• 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,…
• The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I…
• 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…

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