"I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead." - Viggo Mortensen
"I mean, I've been around a long time compared to a lot of other actors. I mean, I've been working on and off for 20 odd years." - Viggo Mortensen
"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way." - Viggo Mortensen
"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't." - Viggo Mortensen
"I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a relatively new situation obviously, but if it all went up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't really care that much. There are a lot of things that interest me. As for my fortunes, it's really a crap shoot." - Viggo Mortensen
"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run." - Viggo Mortensen
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.'" - Viggo Mortensen
"It's also just weird getting that much fan mail from strangers. I may just have to say that if I'm doing a book signing or you catch me on the street, then fine. But otherwise I cannot do it anymore. It takes hours everyday and it takes too much time away from other things I must do." - 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
"There's a great museum in Cody, Wyo., called the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. I went to their research library about 15 or 20 years ago and looked through their files and saw my mother, her sister and my uncle as descendents in the family tree. It was pretty cool." - Viggo Mortensen
"You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away." - Viggo Mortensen
