Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.
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Suffering does not change its face.
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Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.
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I come to work every day thinking I have to earn my job, and I really believe that. I don't have a given right to my job; I need to prove my value in my role every single day.
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When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
