Viggo Mortensen Quotes - Page 9

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• 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 their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Character, Thinking, Different

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

  Viggo Mortensen

  America, Decay, Done

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• I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Slow Down, Metabolism

  Source: collider.com

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• Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Eye, Shy

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Character, Naked, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, People, Majority

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• Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

  Viggo Mortensen

  World, Language, Environment

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Effort, Trying

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• I met Cindy [Sheehan] near Crawford, Texas. I went out to personally thank her for waiting patiently by the road in front of George and Laura Bush's ranch for an answer from her President as to why and for what her son and others had been sacrificed in the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Son, Iraq, Texas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Chance, Strive, Something Better

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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 different from mine.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Views, Different

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• Bernie Sanders has inspired millions of people in this country.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, People, Inspired

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I trust Hillary Clinton about as far as I could throw Donald Trump.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Clinton, Trump

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• If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Watches, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Brother, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fighting, Editors, Space

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Tattoo, Photography, Book

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Brave, Honest

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Age, Tvs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Lying, Thinking, Omission

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

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