Viggo Mortensen Quotes - Page 3

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• As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.

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  Powerful, Military, Player

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

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  Kids, Past, Accepting

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• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

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  Writing, Garden, Facts

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• It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

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  Excuse You, Ideas, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

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  Photography, Way, Painting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

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  Country, Hate, Cities

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• Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

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  Thinking, Years, People

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• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

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  Ideas, Germany, Austria

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• I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.

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  Teacher, Thinking, Atmosphere

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 3 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

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  Pursue

  "Viggo Mortensen Loves Politics". Interview with Nina Siegal, www.alternet.org. October 17, 2005.

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• You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

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  Divorce, World

  Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

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  People, Demand, Equine

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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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  Kitchen, Happenings

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.

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  Past, Realizing

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

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  Running, Thinking, Long

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• I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

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  Sports, Baby, Hate

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• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

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  Other Cultures, Interesting, Mind

  "LatinoBuzz: Viggo Mortensen On Playing Twins, His Love of Argentina, and Soccer". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

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  Film, Grain, Exposed

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• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

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  Pockets, Who Cares, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

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  Laughing, Violence, Would Be

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• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

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  Exception, Ought

  "Q&A: Viggo Mortensen" by Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2010.

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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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  Years, Ems, Married

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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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  Night, Self, Discipline

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• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

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  Actors, Kind

  "Eats Roadkill, Speaks Danish" by Amy Wallace, www.esquire.com. February 28, 2006.

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• I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

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  Wanting More, Stories, Wonder

  "Interview: Viggo Mortensen on “Good”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 31, 2008.

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