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Thinking Quotes by Viggo Mortensen
- I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a…
- 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…
- I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish,…
- I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in…
- I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
- If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch…
- If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
- One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I…
- I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
- I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want…
- I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
- To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
- Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run,…
- I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
- I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
- I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
- I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
- I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
- When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
- You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
- Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written -…
- I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an…
- I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's…
- I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what…
- If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have…
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