Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
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Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best.
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I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
