"II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology."
"Actors are a race."
"Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world."
"I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual."
"Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell."
"Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way."
"I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like."
"I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school."
"I became a dancer late and an actor late."
"I like to stay home with my family."
"If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them."
"I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky."
"I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film."
"Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys."
"I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film."
"If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino."
"If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way."
"Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script."
"I've always been extremely physical."
"I choose work with the people I like to work with."
"I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'."
"I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on."
"I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right."
"I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with."
"If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking."
