American - Actor | October 20, 1958 -
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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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.
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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.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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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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