Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
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That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.
