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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.

I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

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've always been extremely physical.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

I have a three-piece suit. I'm an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I'm probably the killer.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.

I can never wink at the audience.

If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

It was never a plan to be an actor.

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.

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

I like to stay home with my family.

I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

I have the strange ability to shut things out.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

Actors are a race.

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

When you do a TV show, there's always the fear that it will become tired and you'll know exactly what's going to happen.

I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.

TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.

I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.

In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.