Best quotes by Viggo Mortensen on Life

Checkout quotes by Viggo Mortensen on Life

  • 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
  • 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 short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
    - Viggo Mortensen
  • 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
  • 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.
    - Viggo Mortensen
  • You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
    - Viggo Mortensen
  • Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.
    - Viggo Mortensen
  • I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
    - Viggo Mortensen