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Viggo Mortensen
American
Actor
Born:
Oct 20
,
1958
Good
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Viggo Mortensen
Life
Time
You
Travel
Experience
People
Life Is Short
Walk
Important
Lose
Older
Think
Indeed
Run
More
Feel
How
Get
Short
Realise
Capacity
Use
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
Sad
Angry
Crazy
Bored
Boredom
No Excuse
Excuse
Yes
Depressed
Ever
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. 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.
Viggo Mortensen
Life
Best
Day
Me
Stress
Will
Slow
Master
Advice
Live
Think
Carefully
Enough
Everything
Though
Horse
He
Hours
Pieces
Calmly
Got
Go
Quicker
Get
Done
Much
Less
Each
Ever
Fast
Thing
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
Viggo Mortensen
Life
Friendship
Best
Democracy
You
Marriage
Real Life
Resolve
Say
Best Friend
Given
Know
She
Real
Friend
Itself
Just
Process
Working
Suddenly
Keep
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
Viggo Mortensen
You
Yourself
People
Be Kind
First
Other
Minded
Out
Kind
Worthwhile
Totally
About
Habit
Somewhat
Points
Allow
Open
Step
Open-Minded
Make
Learn
First Step
Doing
Opposite
Effort
Curious
Get
Common
Being
Them
Might
Realizing
View
Your
Figure
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
Viggo Mortensen
Life
You
Life Is Short
Older
Indeed
More
Feel
Get
Short
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
Viggo Mortensen
Best
You
Travel
People
Old
Once
Say
Kids
Weapons
See
Been
Iran
Anti-War
Oh
Cemeteries
Little
Them
Little Kids
Old People
Bomb
Cops
I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
Viggo Mortensen
Beautiful
Death
Time
Me
Unfair
Every
Think
Other
Every Time
See
Something
Only
Know
Beautiful Things
Return
Makes
Go
Get
Going
Afraid
Want
Irritating
Places
Resent
Things
I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
Viggo Mortensen
Silence
You
Phone
Degree
Fall
Lost
Whatever
Range
Out
Blackberry
Something
Habit
Call
Because
Said
Isolated
Being
Realise
Even
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.
Viggo Mortensen
Day
Stress
Will
Live
Carefully
Enough
Though
Hours
Calmly
Quicker
Get
Done
Much
Less
Each
Thing
When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
Viggo Mortensen
Own
Horses
Boy
Rode
Little
For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
Viggo Mortensen
Time
Made
Sense
Spent
Horses
Could
Around
Just
Which
Much
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
Viggo Mortensen
Me
People
Before
Painting
Others
Books
Photo
Drew
Poetry
Readings
Doing
Exhibitions
Been
Years
Company
Publishing
Publishing Company
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
Viggo Mortensen
You
People
Problem
Say
Find
Never
Had
Attention
Liked
Doing
Paying
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
Viggo Mortensen
Few
Others
Kid
Drawings
Admired
Adult
Read
Jules
Notebooks
Leonardo
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
Viggo Mortensen
Hope
Great
Great Story
New
Always
Optimist
Going
Story
Script
Each
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
Viggo Mortensen
Envy
Ways
Someone
Hotel
Like
Lot
Decades
Who
Lived
Omar
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.
Viggo Mortensen
People
Thanks
Other
Kid
About
Around
Always
Gotten
Been
Lot
Cultures
Curious
Moved
Different
Interested
Places
Movies
Working
Languages
Certainly
Different Places
Keep
Traveling
Raised
It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
Viggo Mortensen
Character
Secret
Obviously
Always
Interesting
Play
I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.
Viggo Mortensen
Beautiful
Great
Most Beautiful
Country
Teammates
Crew
Crew Members
Bit
Members
Beautiful Country
New
Beautiful Places
Most
Been
Quite
Quite A Bit
Places
Really
Working
Traveled
Ever
Enjoyed
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
Viggo Mortensen
Crazy
You
Happy
People
Think
See
Feel
Yelling
Times
Maybe
Just
Expressing
Street
Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.
Viggo Mortensen
Life
Nature
People
Better
Bad People
Path
Our
Those
Circumstances
Bad
Feel
Like
Know
Identify
Intentions
Where
Anyone
Inform
Us
Moments
Resist
I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
Viggo Mortensen
Teacher
Good
Director
Behavior
Think
Relaxed
Rules
Cronenberg
Atmosphere
Someone
David
Suppose
Like
Openness
Because
Conducive
Conduct
Very
Expected
Much
Created
Certain
Exploration
Good Director
Set
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
Viggo Mortensen
Life
Music
You
Living
Filtering
Back
Books
Way
Compose
See
Write
Remembering
Attention
Participating
Answering
Artist
Just
Movies
Paying
Paint
One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
Viggo Mortensen
Government
Leadership
Me
You
Trust
People
Matter
Care
Power
Ways
Those
Out
Stay
Stays
Insignificant
Various
Take
Main
Take Care
Opinions
Isolated
Govern
Trust Me
Just
Us
Really
Should
Convincing
Your
Who
Let Us
Things
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.
Viggo Mortensen
People
Before
Apprehensive
Unless
Bit
Carpet
About
Taking
Red
Feel
Veins
Red Carpet
Pictures
Bewildering
Like
Most
Always
Blood
Questions
Very
Little
Warm
Asking
Asking Questions
Ceremony
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