Viggo Quotes

“My idea of a nice day is to stay at home and do whatever the hell I want.”

“A couple of days ago, l looked at all the paintings, and I was like, "I don't know what these are." Then it snowballed. "What kind of actor am I anyway? What kind of father? I mean, what a joke. God, I'm such a vain, self-involved creature, and I should just stop making these things and inflicting them on people!" I can see why people jump out windows.”

“I love driving. Just driving, driving, driving by the road. Suddenly you can think again. Like when you’re wandering through hardwood forest, or in the mountains, or stand in a big, cold, mirroring lake, fishing. Then you are close to happiness – and what more can anyone want.”

“I don’t want to waste my life on receptions and shallowness and those film-awards that take place every weekend and in many ways corrupt the whole industry. There’s enough that matters in life – my son, nature, art, travels – and that’s what I want to spend my time on.”

“There are a lot of moments that I treasure, whether they happened in rehearsals or on film, magical moments between people. It’s the same thing if I walked down the street with my camera. That’s ‘traveling hopefully’ to me. I think I’m essentially hopeful and the reason that I paint or photograph or listen to someone who is speaking to me is that I hope something might happen.”

"Photography, painting or poetry those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things, they are my way of communicating.”

"The reason there's so many problems with religion in this world is because people take literally what are symbolic elements. They all believe the same thing essentially and yet they're willing to die about the details. But religion, my and fairytales need to be reinvented and those who manage to do that cleverly and the ones who are saving us from ourselves."

"I take nothing for granted... I've arrived so many times I don't know where I went."