Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

It's dead nice to know I've achieved something.

I will never feel successful.

I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful. I feel like I did well.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.

My body of work means nothing to me.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

For me, just being published feels like success.

I believe the relationships and emotions you experience when you have success are the things that last forever.