Quote

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Viggo Mortensen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Jazz Musician
Manufacturer
Musician
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Watertown
New York
Viggo Peter Mortensen
Jr
Learn
Might
Kind
Make
Worthwhile
People
Figure
Figures
Effort
Common

More quotes by Viggo Mortensen

Image
You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
Viggo Mortensen
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 happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
As regards Hillary Cinton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
Viggo Mortensen
Image
I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
I trust Hillary Clinton about as far as I could throw Donald Trump.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
As Martin Luther King said, Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
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 become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
Viggo Mortensen
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 I lived in.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.
Viggo Mortensen
Image
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 not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
Viggo Mortensen
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