Quote: From a Goat Family

Thank you. It's too bad you're not in them. 
No, there is one of myself in there. It's an older one that I added. I'm ten years old and I'm sitting on a pony, to my left you see my two little brothers. And that one, on the goat, that's my father.

Interesting. 
So that you get the right idea.

You're driving cattle on the photograph. That's good, because we want to talk about the myth of the cowboy. You come from a horse family. 
Yes, and from a goat family.

Viggo Mortensen on cowboys
Gabriela Herpell , Sueddeutsche Zeitung
03 Apr '04


( Doesn't Goatboy some just plain weird? (As opposed to cowboy?) )

tip o' the day

Anyone up for geekiness? Here's a good one I got in my email today folks might not be aware of...

( the Windows key )

More on Goats

Frank T. Hopkins: Tell him to fetch more water.
[Yusef yells at the slave boy in Arabic and sends him off with a kick]
Frank T. Hopkins: Hey.
[hands Yusef another bucket]
Frank T. Hopkins: You, too.
Yusef: Why do you buy this boy, anyway?
Frank T. Hopkins: Someone has to do your work, goatherder!

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The devotion to the craft of storytelling resulted in a blatant but good-natured exaggeration of facts on a few occasions.

"There was something that we threw in, we just made up, that's really ridiculous if you know anything about horses," Mortensen says and smiles a little, preparing to share some of the private jokes and liberties taken on-set. "The goat herder says to him, 'I was born to be a goat herder - you were not born to win this race.' And [Frank] turns around and says, 'You know, I once had a three-legged colt - it was born that way, and it turned out to be the best roping horse I ever had,' Mortensen laughs out loud. "Which is absurd. ... That's just a line I made up to say, 'Don't count yourself out, ever.'"

Reining in success after the Rings
On crossing cultures, telling stories and being a cowboy
Ally Burguieres in Diamondback
26 Feb '04

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and from what I posted the other day that started my goatboy fascination...

(Upon getting his first starting role in the movie 'Prison' in 1988 Viggo comments on his plans for the future):
"After this movie wraps, I'm thinking about going into goat herding, like my mother and her mother before her.."

thanks to the Many Faces site for the transcription