I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.' Viggo Mortensen More Quotes by Viggo Mortensen More Quotes From Viggo Mortensen There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. Viggo Mortensen saddepressioninspirational One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. Viggo Mortensen horsestressthinking I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence. Viggo Mortensen phonessilencefall You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. Viggo Mortensen things-in-lifeshouldinteresting Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. Viggo Mortensen life-is-shortrunningthinking I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in. Viggo Mortensen talkingpeoplethinking I have never been in a natural place and felt that it 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. Viggo Mortensen desertwastehair It's easy to get depressed and think, "Well, what's the point?" But it's the same as, "Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights." You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere. Viggo Mortensen saying-hellolightthinking To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life. Viggo Mortensen artistwritingbook I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months. Viggo Mortensen being-alonephonesloneliness As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together. Viggo Mortensen powerfulmilitaryplayer Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite. Viggo Mortensen viewsoppositespeople 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. Viggo Mortensen attentionpeopleworld As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil." Viggo Mortensen unjustkingsevil You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. Viggo Mortensen artisticpeopleart My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different. Viggo Mortensen artistjobsthinking When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas. Viggo Mortensen hollywoodpartyhome I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go. Viggo Mortensen wantbeautifulthinking I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others. Viggo Mortensen managethinking Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course. Viggo Mortensen universityscholarshipdifferent
