376 Quotes by viggo mortensen

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.

I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

My goal is just to make movies, whether they’re big or small, that I’d like to see 10 years from now.

I don’t think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we’ve strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that’s like, and we resist it – so as not to feel like we’re bad people.

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

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.

Most actors can’t make any kind of living.