Viggo Mortensen World Quotations

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

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.

I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.