376 Quotes by viggo mortensen

When you’re under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

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.

People like to pigeonhole you. It’s easier.

I don’t think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you’re president.

I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine – sometimes radically different from mine.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you’re connected.

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

I’d like to, when it’s all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

For ‘Hidalgo,’ I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.