Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

I grew up in a family where the thing that was valued most was being a hard worker, and if you commit to something, you follow through.

One of the things I'm most proud of is actually saying I'm going to do something and doing it.

Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

I've never missed weight once in my entire life or my career going from wrestling from eight years old through all my professional career. If I agree to do something, I'm doing it.

I'm a big follow-through person. Everything I do, and everyone I meet, I follow through with it.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

When I make a commitment I stick to it.

When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.

My father, he was a strong guy, a handsome guy, and a hard worker. I don't believe he ever missed a day of work in his life.

I tell my 5-year-old, 'Once you commit to something, stick it out.' I would never want him to look at Dad and think Dad was a quitter.

I came in on time, I was always a professional.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

I work hard, I am punctual and believe that I am sincere.

I kind of believe that, whenever possible, you should finish the job that you set out to do.

My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.

I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.