Viggo Mortensen Quotes
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.
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I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
