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Viggo Mortensen has 161 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
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We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked…
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You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
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To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a…
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by…
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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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I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my…
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As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and…
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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 look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically…
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I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is…
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Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself…
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I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie…
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Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you…
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Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
— William Holden
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do…
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Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening…
— Richard Gere
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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that…
— Ralph Fiennes
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus…
— Viggo Mortensen
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