Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Start

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Think
  • Personality

• I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Party
  • Liberal
  • Corporate

• I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Clay
  • Henry

• In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Age
  • Earth

• I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Know
  • Loved
  • Gym

• I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Right
  • Healthy
  • Possible

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • See
  • Look
  • Nothing

• I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Time
  • Question
  • Slavery

• Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Well
  • Often

• Being a parent is very important to me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Important
  • Parent
  • Being A Parent

• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Customers
  • Particle

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

  

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Behavior