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" I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!' "
Pilou Asbaek
Cry
Kung
Cynical
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" On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead! "
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Forward
" 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? "
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Think
Film
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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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Love
Something
Wonderful
" As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul. "
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Maybe
" 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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Father
Family
Brother
" I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.' "
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Person
I Am
Role
" I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex. "
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Kind
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Interesting
" 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. "
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People
Vote
Home
" 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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Relationships
Special
You
" For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy. "
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Happy
People
Feeling
" 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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You
Love
People
" I love my kid. I love a boring life. "
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I Love
Boring
Life
" I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles. "
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People
Dramatic
Guy
" 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. "
Pilou Asbaek
People
Believe
Doing
" If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics. "
Pilou Asbaek
Sound
Back
Beautiful
" Guess what? Human beings are complex. "
Pilou Asbaek
Human Beings
Guess
Human
" I'm a father first. "
Pilou Asbaek
Father
First
" I never read anything that's written about me. "
Pilou Asbaek
Me
Never
About
" I'm trying to have a family and a career. "
Pilou Asbaek
Trying
Family
Career
" I watched 'Eurovision.' And I actually like the show. I like wind machines. I like the whole glimmer-glamour thing. That's 'Eurovision.' We love to hate it. "
Pilou Asbaek
Hate
Wind
Like
" 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. "
Pilou Asbaek
Fun
Night
Together
" Overnight, I became a public figure. "
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Public Figure
Overnight
Public
" Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. "
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Black
White
Black And White
" 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
World
Saying
" I'm not a religious guy at all. "
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Guy
Religious
" I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it. "
Pilou Asbaek
Buy
Whole
Man
" In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people. "
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Characters
People
Hijacking
" I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away. "
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Far Away
Democracy
Respect
" That guy in 'The Simpsons' - I love Groundskeeper Willie. "
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Love
Guy
I Love
" 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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Soldiers
War
Understand