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Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (/ˈviːɡoʊ ˈmɔːrtənsən/; Danish: [viːɡo ˈmɒːdn̩sn̩]; born October 20, 1958) is a Danish American actor, producer, author, musician, photographer, poet, and painter.

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Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Environment, Language, Lived, Living, World

I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

Argentina, Baby, Decade, Stayed, Tunes, Years

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

Communicating, Painting, Perceive, Photography, Way

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

Grooming, Involved, Offensive, People, Trying

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

Exposed, Film, Grain, Happens, Like, Naturally

I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.

Parties, Party, People, Start, Thinking, Voting

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

Accusation, American, Citizens, Dissenting, Inquisitive, Tools

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.

Acting, Directors, Jobs, Shooting, Trust

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Afraid, Interesting, Should, Things, Things In Life

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.

Blackberry, Fall, Phones, Range, Silence

I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U. S. politician.

2008, Brave, Campaigned, Honest, Thinking, Unusually

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

Chance, Something Better, Strive

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

Enemy, Like, Making, Pope, President, Thinking

Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political leanings of anyone who tries to make that case - is a load of self-justifying, destructive horseshit.

Lord, Political, Self, Story, White

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

Experience, Fate, Guy, Randomness, Schopenhauer, Suffering

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

Build, Kind, People, Thinking, Trying

Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

Interesting, Majority, Think, Thinking, Way, Years

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.

Character, Depending, Might, Possibilities, Talking

I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.

Different, People, Points, Realize, Views

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

Baby, Fault, Hate, Like, Ronaldo, Sports

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