Viggo Mortensen Quotes
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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'Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.
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I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.
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Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
