Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
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I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
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I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
