Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

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• I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

  

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• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  

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• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

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• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  

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• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

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• Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

  

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• When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.

  

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• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

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• We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

  

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• Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

  

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• Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

  

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• With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

  

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• I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

  

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• The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

  

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• When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can call it.

  

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• If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.

  

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• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

  

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• The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.

  

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• I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

  

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• The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

  

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• My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.

  

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
  • American
  • Actors
  • Ambition