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Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sports Time Swimming Down Sitting

Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and I would always feel like, 'OMG, I shouldn't be listening to this,' and my other cousin was the first to introduce me to Aaliyah, so every time I'd go to the West Coast, I'd get those West Coast vibes.

Family Time Me Listening Feel Play

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Nothing Pay Out Contract Artists

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Soul Happy Be Happy Only Unhappiness

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Walk Stand Short You Apple Actor

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

Car Walk House Build Fix Guy

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

Life Art Doing Deals Directly

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Work I Am Wait Back I Can Want

There were no secrets in my house. I always knew what was going on.

House Secrets Always Going Knew

We want to serve the customer as they want to be served.

Customer Want Serve Served

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

God Beautiful Man Human Him Within

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

Jordan Peterson

Politics Identity Sick Game Think

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Jordan Peterson

Life Suffering Ideas Say Difficult

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