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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
— Viggo Mortensen
I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.
— Viggo Mortensen
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
— Viggo Mortensen
I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
— Viggo Mortensen
It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
— Viggo Mortensen
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
— Viggo Mortensen
Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
— Viggo Mortensen
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
— Viggo Mortensen
The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
— Viggo Mortensen
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
— Viggo Mortensen
I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
— Viggo Mortensen
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
— Viggo Mortensen
Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.
— Viggo Mortensen
I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
— Viggo Mortensen
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
— Viggo Mortensen
If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."
— Viggo Mortensen
The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
— Viggo Mortensen
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
— Viggo Mortensen
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
— Viggo Mortensen
Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
— Viggo Mortensen
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
— Viggo Mortensen
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
— Viggo Mortensen
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
— Viggo Mortensen
Can you join, ask sincerely for affectionwithout sweaty hand of expectation,
understanding and accepting
if it never is given? — Viggo Mortensen
It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
— Viggo Mortensen
'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
— Viggo Mortensen
You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.
— Viggo Mortensen
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
— Viggo Mortensen
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
— Viggo Mortensen
A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.
— Viggo Mortensen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.
— Viggo Mortensen
I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
— Viggo Mortensen
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
— Viggo Mortensen
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
— Viggo Mortensen
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
— Viggo Mortensen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
— Viggo Mortensen
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
— Viggo Mortensen
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
— Viggo Mortensen
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
— Viggo Mortensen
I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
— Viggo Mortensen
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
— Viggo Mortensen
You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
— Viggo Mortensen
It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
— Viggo Mortensen
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
— Viggo Mortensen
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
— Viggo Mortensen
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
— Viggo Mortensen
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
— Viggo Mortensen
You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
— Viggo Mortensen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
— Viggo Mortensen
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
— Viggo Mortensen
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
— Viggo Mortensen
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
— Viggo Mortensen
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
— Viggo Mortensen
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He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples ... And I've never seen him so happy.
— Billy Boyd
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
— Viggo Mortensen
I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
— Viggo Mortensen
I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
— Viggo Mortensen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
— Viggo Mortensen
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
— Viggo Mortensen
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
— Viggo Mortensen
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
— Viggo Mortensen
I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
— Viggo Mortensen
I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.
— Viggo Mortensen
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
— Viggo Mortensen
I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
— Viggo Mortensen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
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.
— Viggo Mortensen
I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.
— Viggo Mortensen
There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
— Viggo Mortensen
The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
— Viggo Mortensen
People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
— Viggo Mortensen
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
— Viggo Mortensen
People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.
— Viggo Mortensen
I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
— Viggo Mortensen
Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
— Viggo Mortensen
When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
— Viggo Mortensen
I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.
— Viggo Mortensen
Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
— Viggo Mortensen
Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
— Viggo Mortensen