Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of con...

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very muc...

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of do...

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. T...

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I fee...

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the ...

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article a...

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do w...

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy,...

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are m...

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fas...

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go wal...

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a...

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably...

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings an...

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there yo...

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excu...

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell...

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and...

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose th...

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally d...

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might...

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that t...

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an a...