Ben Mikaelsen Quotes
How much of the world did people miss because they were not calm enough, empty enough, to experience it?
Quotes to Explore
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.
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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
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Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
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Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
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How much of the world did people miss because they were not calm enough, empty enough, to experience it?
