Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.

I'm not at my best when I'm not working - I'm certainly not at my happiest. Acting will always be my first love.

If I've been working a lot and I've been away from my kids, then I don't go to the gym. It's okay to miss a day. I tell myself not to feel bad about it, too, because then it's a waste if you choose not to do something and feel bad.

I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.

In 'Girlfriends,' I was exploring the idea of having it all. In 'Being Mary Jane,' I was exploring the idea that you have to be the center of everything.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great.

I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work that way. I'm not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible.

I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.

If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

Sometimes, it's healthy to take a step back.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

I am a working mom, so to be able to have a space for my kids as well as a space for my work, it's just great. That is what balance is.

At Sunderland, if I had a bad game, it wasn't like it was the end of the world.

There's a lot of American citizens out there that do jobs that they hate, day in and day out. For me to do what I love to do, with people that I like and enjoy being around who are chasing the same dream, same passions, to have that around you day in and day out, I think it says a lot.

I always try to do movies that are different from the ones I've done before.

I'm an actress. I'm ready to work anytime.

Truth be told, I decided years ago not to call it a job, because I know people who work - my mother worked, hard.

Even though a lot of people keep trying to get me to retire, I won't.

It can feel like such a hectic lifestyle. We are always busy and always under pressure. So giving myself that 10 minutes of meditation each day has really helped me to relax, restore some perspective, and gain that meditative state.

I don't want to be like a flag in the wind one day like this and one day like the other, praying for a few points. Sometimes at this level we have to, sadly, work within this pressure in your day to day work, and that's quite normal.

Work like your life depends on it, but remember it doesn't.