Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was:… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players… — 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… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and… — 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
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that.… — 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
In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well… — 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
I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world. — 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
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to… — 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
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