"I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics.……" — Viggo Mortensen
"I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated."
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159 Quotes by Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen has 159 quotes on this site.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing…
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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,…
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As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer…
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Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be…
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I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine -…
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different…
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
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