Viggo Mortensen Quotes

"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way."
- Viggo Mortensen
(Related: People)

"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't."
- Viggo Mortensen
(Related: Hope, Career, Challenge)

"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
(Related: Trying)

"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
- Viggo Mortensen
(Related: Painting)

"Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer."
- Viggo Mortensen
(Related: Love, Work, People, Goal, Exercise, Play, Reason, Soccer)

"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
(Related: Boredom)