Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
Pilou Asbaek
In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.
I did half a year of theatre.
'Eurovision' is a party. I've never said no to a party, so I'm not saying no to this.
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.
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.
As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul.
On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!
I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'
I'm not a religious guy at all.
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 love my kid. I love a boring life.
I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.'
I started quite late. I didn't know acting was a job.
I like to do my own stunts, but sometimes you need a little bit of help.
For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy.
I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.
I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.
It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.
I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.
I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.
I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.
I never read anything that's written about me.
I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.
The most exciting thing about joining 'Game Of Thrones' is joining 'Game Of Thrones.'
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'm trying to have a family and a career.
I'm a father first.
Films come and go. Families stay.
I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.
As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.
I think six seasons are telling us one thing about 'Game of Thrones': Everyone should watch their back. No one is safe. That's what I love about the show. I love that it's so unpredictable.
I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.
Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.
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.
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.
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.
I'm the worst liar alive.
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.
Guess what? Human beings are complex.
Overnight, I became a public figure.
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.
That guy in 'The Simpsons' - I love Groundskeeper Willie.
I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.
