QUOTES  AND  NOTES

The following are all quotes attributed to Viggo Mortensen.

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"Photography, painting or poetry those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things, they are my way of communicating," to New Zealand's One News June 2002

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"The first movie blossomed into a beautiful movie last year, then it withered away and disappeared. Now we are planting seeds again. We aren't just throwing seeds all around the place and hoping that it will be like last time, this time we are digging deep and working hard to make a new and even more beautiful garden."

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"When I got my Aragorn gear on me I felt I was in the role straight away again."

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"That intangible feeling of wholeness, togetherness that's important to the story to the Fellowship, that was also true for all of us working on these movies," "Within an hour of being on the set the first day back after such a long time away it felt like we hadn't missed a beat" (Three quotes above all on the return to the set of LOTR)

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"My idea of a great day is to stay home and do whatever the hell I want"

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"Kids are God - pay attention"

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"The other day I came across a MAD Magazine. For the first time I felt I had arrived when it I saw a G.I. Jane parody of me called G.I. Shame. [Laughs] My favorite part was the idea that the candidates were dropping out of the SEALs not from the physical abuse but from my awful poetry readings."

 - VM to Movieline, 1998

"A movie set is like a ritual, with all the trappings and preparation... I feel like when we go to a set and we rehearse --or not-- and we're wearing these costumes and saying these words, it's like an invocation, an invitation to magic, to the unexplained, to let the unexpected into our lives".

VM to Entertainment Today Magazine, December, 2001

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"I really believe that 98% of creation is accident, one percent is intellect and  one percent is logic. You have to make the accidents work for you." -- Viggo to Dennis Hopper, Flaunt Magazine, April, 1999

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"I can't believe that somebody wants to hear my opinion", he says. "If the whirl is getting all too silly, I'll stop filming again" (on the all the recent attention )  - translation from Wienerin Magazine (Austrian),  February 2002

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"I'm a control freak about wanting my character to be faithful to where I think they're coming from. But I don't think that I try to control anyone I'm working with." --Interview magazine, June 1995

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''The general atmosphere was of controlled chaos,'' says Viggo Mortensen, who plays the haunted hero Aragorn. ''But a lot of inspired moments captured on film come from doubt and panic.'' (On what it was like on the set of Lord of the Rings)

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"Is it horrible?" he winces. "Does it look like me? As long as it doesn't look like me, then there's no voodoo risk." (when asked if he had seen his own Action Figure from LOTR)

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How does he find the time? "I don't have a TV," says Mortensen (on his involvement in so many art forms and a hectic schedule)

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"I had a great sex scene with Christopher Walken in The Prophesy and no one started rumours about us. When will people realize that actors act? If we didn't make love scenes believable, we wouldn't be doing our job properly."  (In reply to unfounded rumours about off-screen involvement with a female co-star)

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"I don't object to people coming here because of the movie if they see the art," Mortensen said. But," he joked, "maybe some people will think I need painting lessons."  (at his recent art exhibition)

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" God, I'm such a vain, self-involved creature, and I should just stop making these things and inflicting them on people!" I can see why people jump out windows".  (on art and life)

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"What's Special about Being a Father? - Everything" 

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UPDATES  OF  INTEREST

Last Updated Wednesday, 21 April 2004

Viggo would make a great "Kiwi" (New Zealander!) Picture  here

A brief article on Viggo's surfing mishap from Australian Who magazine

A page of photographs taken by Viggo Mortensen here

Extensive and insightful Interview with a modest man called Viggo Mortensen here

Viggo reads poetry (along with some free-form country influenced singing)  - scary, sardonic, humourous, disturbing, gritty, playful, capricious, fascinating - are a few words that come to mind!  You decide -  listen to http://www.mp3.com/viggomortensen - his page online at mp3.com - 

 

Current TV Schedule - movies Viggo appears in currently on television are listed here

Realplayer Interview with Viggo on his film roles, around two minutes long, entitled La Dolce Viggo!  (This is on the Eonline site).

 

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