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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.Collection: Viggo
Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.Collection: Viggo
I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.Collection: Viggo
Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'Collection: Viggo
I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.Collection: Viggo
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.Collection: Viggo
I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.Collection: Viggo
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.Collection: Viggo
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.Collection: Viggo
A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.Collection: Viggo
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.Collection: Viggo
Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo
It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.Collection: Viggo
In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'Collection: Viggo
Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.Collection: Viggo
In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.Collection: Viggo
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.Collection: Viggo
You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.Collection: Viggo
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.Collection: Viggo
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.Collection: Viggo
Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.Collection: Viggo
I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?Collection: Viggo
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.Collection: Viggo
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'Collection: Viggo
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.Collection: Viggo
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.Collection: Viggo
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.Collection: Viggo
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.Collection: Viggo
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.Collection: Viggo
I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.Collection: Viggo
People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.Collection: Viggo
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.Collection: Viggo
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.Collection: Viggo
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.Collection: Viggo
I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.Collection: Viggo
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.Collection: Viggo
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!'Collection: Viggo
Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo
I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.Collection: Viggo
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.Collection: Viggo