Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.
Quotes to Explore
-
People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
-
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
-
In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
-
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
-
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
-
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
-
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
-
Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
-
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
-
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
-
My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
-
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
-
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
-
With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
-
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
-
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
-
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
-
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
-
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.
-
When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.
-
Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
-
I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.
