"I was born in New York but as……" — Viggo Mortensen
"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 traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different."
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159 Quotes by Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen has 159 quotes on this site.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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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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As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer…
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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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