"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. No compromises. Let's put it this way: compromises are from hell."

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Source : "Mads Mikkelsen: I never plan my career". Cover Media Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. April 24, 2014.

Mads Mikkelsen

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“One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.”
“Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.”

Source : "Q&A – Steven Yeun (Glenn)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.
“A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.”
“I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.”
“I voted for you during your last election.”
“Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.”
“It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.”

Source : Havilah Babcock (2016). “My Health is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.26, Pickle Partners Publishing
“The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.”

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