When you’re under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained. Viggo Mortensen Read Quote
Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don’t have to do much of anything – just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn’t work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job. Viggo Mortensen Read Quote
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different. Viggo Mortensen Read Quote
Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. Viggo Mortensen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Like most people – unless they’re very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins – I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It’s always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony. Viggo Mortensen Read Quote
You can’t really go back to where you came from. I don’t think any of us can. Viggo Mortensen Read Quote
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others. Viggo Mortensen Read Quote
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 Read Quote