Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.