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" I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.' "
Pilou Asbaek
Person
I Am
Role
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" When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships. "
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" The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the whole Western world, you know? You got a pretty big responsibility. "
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" With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan. "
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" I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away. "
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" I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.' "
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" Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained. "
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" I did a film called 'Worlds Apart' about a Jehovah's Witness. I was the love interest - the male lead - but the story was about the female lead, a young girl who is a part of this cult, and she wants to break out. She meets a guy who has to help her. She has to find out who she is. It's more like a coming of age story. "
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" I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all. "
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" I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these kinds of people, the older you get, the more you appreciate it. "
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" It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been watching it every single Monday when with my wife. It was like a ritual - every Monday night on HBO Nordic, we would watch 'Game of Thrones' together. "
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" In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life. "
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" I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex. "
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Interesting
" Overnight, I became a public figure. "
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Public Figure
Overnight
Public
" I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it. "
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Buy
Whole
Man
" One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise people; 'I hate this politician, I hate what they do.' You are doing this right now with Margaret Thatcher, but sometimes it's hard to be a politician. I'm not defending Margaret Thatcher, but we believe our statesmen are also human beings. "
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" I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer. "
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Friend
Writer
Want
" I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind. "
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Wife
People
Understand
" Films come and go. Families stay. "
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Go
Come
Families
" It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that. "
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Need
You
Mother Nature
" As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul. "
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Maybe
" I'm not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not an alpha male. "
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Standing
" Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. "
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" In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people. "
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Hijacking
" If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics. "
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Sound
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Beautiful
" For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy. "
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People
Feeling
" I love my kid. I love a boring life. "
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Boring
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" I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting. "
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Family
Brother
" Trump starts out by saying, 'We need to build walls; we need to do this.' He's very bombastic in what he's saying and his approach to the world. "
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Walls
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" I did half a year of theatre. "
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