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
You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus… — 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
When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the world as much as possible from their point of view. I don't look at it just technically: learn the lines, figure out what gestures I want to bring and play, and that's it. I like to learn as… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share
The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in… — 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
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 out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share
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
