I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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.
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.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Every day Viggo drinks a special kind of tea called Mat?, without sugar.
After the filming of Hidalgo Viggo Mortensen bought one of the horses who starred in the movie as Higalgo; Viggo felt so close to the horse that he just had to own it.
Viggo Mortensen is attending the Rome Film Festival (Italy), from October 13th-21st to promote his new movie.
Viggo was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
Viggo worked as a truck driver and a waiter while living in Denmark.
Viggo had a book of poetry printed before he was known to the world as Aragorn; the title was Ten Last Night.
Viggo is a big hockey fan and supports the Montreal Canadiens.
Viggo got his start in the entertainment biz by acting in stage plays.
Viggo has a son, Henry Blake, with his ex-wife Christine "Exene" Cervenka of the band X.
Viggo is an accomplished photographer and artist. He has released a book of some of his photos and paintings.
Viggo attended St. Lawrence University in 1980 and he holds a B.A. degrees in Goverment and Spanish.
Viggo is trilingual. He speaks English, Danish, and Spanish. He also knows French, Italian, Swedish and Norwegian to a lesser degree.
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