Viggo Mortensen Quotes

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

After being in a studio, working on games stuff, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I wish I could just sit in my room for a week and listen to music and draw by myself.'

My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

For me chilling out is when I can stay at home, order food from outside and watch a film with my friends. Listening to music and watching films are my idea of perfect relaxation.

I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.

At times, for sure, I do love a party. However, I do love going back to my room and putting on 'Only Fools And Horses' and having a cup of tea.

I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.

To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.

I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more - it's really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.

I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.