376 Quotes by viggo mortensen

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

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.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

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

Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

'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.