Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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Let us have peace.
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.
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Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.
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I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.
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Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
