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Viggo Mortensen Quotes

«I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead.»
«Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character,and usually an improvement in your life.»
«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.»
«There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.»
«What?s the most especial thing about being a father? Everything.»
Author: Viggo Mortensen (Actor, Artist, Photographer, Writer) | About: Children | Keywords: especial
«You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away.»
«I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.»
«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 dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.»
«It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away.»
«In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.'»

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