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" I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military. "

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" 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. "

" I think if you just made a film that says, 'This is anti-war,' and you had to spend two hours explaining that... you don't like war? Wow, that's original. Know what I mean? "

" Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work. "

" 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. "

" As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat. "

" In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did half a year of theatre. "

" I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!' "

" Films come and go. Families stay. "

" I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.' "

" 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. "

" I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex. "

" Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. "

Black And White

" I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting. "

" 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. "

" In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up. "

" I'm not a religious guy at all. "

" 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. "

" The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare. "

" I was the first person in the family to be an actor. "

" 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. "

" On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead! "

Looking Forward

" I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles. "

" 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. "

" 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. "