Viggo Mortensen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Viggo Mortensen quotes and sayings page 2 (66 year old actor). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 125 we have for him.
“You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.”
“Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.”
“In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.”
“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.”
“I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.”
“Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'”
“I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.”
“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.”
“I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.”
“It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.”
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