Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
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I like my world to be calm.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.
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It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
