Viggo Mortensen Quotes

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.

I get embarrassed on the red carpet at awards ceremonies. The whole celebrity thing is embarrassing.

I'm awkward under the limelight.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Performing was terrifying.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

I'm scared of audiences.

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.