Top 148 Quotes by Viggo Mortensen

There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

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.

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.