Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'

Mads Mikkelsen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: November 22, 1965

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I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

Joan Collins

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Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Joel Silver

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In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.

John Lithgow

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Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

Michael Chabon

GoodWordsMemoryRememberYouKnow

I am a huge fan of Amitav Ghosh's work. I wish I could meet him.

Sriti Jha

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I was a skinny 17-year-old.

Roger Rees

Skinny

I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

GoalOnlyFormOppose

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

Lois Lowry

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As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Chris Milk

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We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Brit Marling

TruthNeverAlwaysJustStories

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

Philip Kaufman

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