Viggo Mortensen Quotes

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

The only power you have is the word no.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

He did not care which direction the car was travelling, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.