Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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I was a really big kid.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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I'm a big Peyton Manning fan.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
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If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
