Viggo Mortensen Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Art, Inspirational, Wisdom

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dead-End, Miserable

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finds, Plan

• I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they’re with people, talking all the time. Whether it’s on the phone, or in person, they’re never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being Alone, Loneliness

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Your, Please

• The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bleed, Sweat

• Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Improvement, Character

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Wildlife

• In a movie, you’re raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Tags in Hue, Raw

• 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

  Tags in Work Out, Hike

• 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

  Tags in Being Bored

Viggo Mortensen (11)

Birth:	20th October, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Musician, Painter, Photographer, Poet

About

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a half American half Danish actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner, Carlito's Way, Crimson Tide, Daylight, The Portrait of a Lady, G.I. Jane , A Perfect Murder, and A Walk on the Moon.

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