Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing.
