Viggo Mortensen Zitate auf Englisch

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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

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To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

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Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

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I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

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It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

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Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

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I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

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