Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

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
Viggo Mortensen

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

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

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen

I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.