Viggo Mortensen Net Worth

Viggo Mortensen's Quotes

• On the role of an actor in film: "It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away."
• I don't plan [my career]; I wait and hope the right thing will find me.
• Photography, painting or poetry those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things, they are my way of communicating.
• I'm the one who said yes to these movies, and now I'm having to pay the price for it. I mean if I had my druthers, I wouldn't do any movies anymore, frankly.
• I was on my way out of a Sunday rehearsal. When I was walking out of the gym, all sort of sweaty, half in street clothes and half in Aragorn's clothes, waving the sword around, trying to keep a mental picture of what we've just done. Just walking down the street, down to where my car was parked, on a Sunday afternoon, waving the sword around, looking like some desperate Rasputin character. Cops car comes: there's been some report...

Interesting Facts about Viggo Mortensen

1. He is the ex-husband of Exene Cervenka, the singer of the punk band X.
2. Had a book of poetry printed before he was known. The title: "Ten Last Night."
3. Speaks fluent English, Spanish, Danish, and French, but he also speaks yet not fluently Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian and Arabic.
4. Became a father for the 1st time at age 29 when his [now ex] wife Exene Cervenka gave birth to their son Henry Mortensen on January 28, 1988.
5. He actually painted the large murals in his artist's studio in the film A Perfect Murder (1998).
6. Lived in South America from age two to age 11.
7. Has been photographing for years, recently debuted with an exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery in NYC. -- American Photo, July/August 2000.
8. Writes poetry in his spare time.
9. Is also a jazz musician - he has released three CDs so far.
10. Worked as a truck driver while living in Denmark
11. Broke a tooth while filming a fight sequence for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002); he asked the crew if they would glue it back on so he could finish the scene.
12. Replaced Stuart Townsend in the role of Aragorn/Strider in The Lord of the Rings, after filming began.
13. Got so into his character of Aragorn that director Peter Jackson once addressed him as Aragorn for over half an hour, and Mortensen didn't even realize it.
14. Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
15. Has two younger brothers, Walter and Charles. They are both geologists.
16. Graduated from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York in 1980 with a degree in Government and Spanish.
17. An accomplished horseman in his spare time, Mortensen requested that his "Rings" character Aragorn be given more saddle time than was originally scripted. He also kept his on-screen horse nearby during the entire principal photography schedule in order to ride in his off-hours and strengthen his relationship with the horse.
18. As Viggo lived in Argentina as a child, he is a fan of Argentine soccer team San Lorenzo (real name of the team: "San Lorenzo of Almagro," from Buenos Aires City). Viggo usually wear clothes and accessories with this team's colors (red and blue) the last time in public, at the Rome Festival, in the "Alatriste" Premiere.
19. Broke two toes during the filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), in the scene where he kicks an Orc helmet.
20. Owner of publishing company Perceval Press.