Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from.… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
