Viggo Mortensen Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Acting, Looks, Bigs

• I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Horse, Kids, Years

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

• Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it’s just an extension of childhood play… Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don’t need any director telling them “You really have to believe in it.” They believe in it completely.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fashion, Believe, Kids

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

• Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Memories, Past

• When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Acting, Directors

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