Top 923 Quotes & Sayings by Danish Authors - Page 3

I've been told that no one knows what happens in the future on 'Game of Thrones.' To my knowledge, I've shot one episode. So I'm as excited as anyone else to find out what happens.

I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

'The Shining' has always been my favorite horror movie. It is scary and incredibly psychological without relying on blood and gore. Jack Nicholson's performance is absolutely mind-blowing. And the mood and the feel is definitely metal.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

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.

I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know how difficult it is also the other way around.

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

I started off in a high school musical.

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

My wife and I have already set up a charity back in Denmark - Fodbold Fonden - and now, through Common Goal, I have a great opportunity to give back in other areas of the world as well.

If you have a business that isn't growing the top line, it's very hard to deliver attractive returns to shareholders.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

When I arrived at Manchester United, the club hadn't won the league for 26 years, and then in my first year, they won the championship.

I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

People think I'm strong as hard as I look. But I've a very sensitive side and need to be loved by everyone.

For me to be speaking of the referees, then you know it must be something big.

There's so many different medias on the internet, taking it from the big medias and making their own little article out of that and changing it into something that it isn't. There's never one story from an interview, there's always so many different stories.

I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven't done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I'm getting to do it with music instead.

I went to Chelsea twice when I was 14 and 15. I was at Danish club Odense at the time and came across with a friend to Cobham. We played against West Ham youth away, and the year after, we played Millwall away.

I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.

I never give up. Doesn't matter what the score is.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

I actually love spinning for relaxation and to keep my body healthy, but besides that, I love exploring new restaurants.

I did Palmolive and Monsavon, which is two soap films, and you can't do two at the same time. I was underage, see, so I didn't really know. I didn't realize that you're not supposed to do two soap films at the same time. Because on one side of the Champs-Elysees there was Monsavon, and on the other there was Palmolive.

When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.

There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

I went to South Korea once and I saw young people, about 15, they had skipped school to come see 'Band of Outsiders.'

If you lose a player who scores seven, eight, or nine goals, you have to find another one.

I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.

I think 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole lot of information to follow that story, and even if you haven't read the book, it seems to go pretty well. And that is a film where the characters didn't meet until 74 minutes into the film, not on page 17.

I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a binocular microscope, using strong reflected light as a source of illumination. Resting muscles observed in this way are usually quite pale, and the microscope reveals only a few capillaries at fairly regular intervals.

I had some bad times. We got married because, you know, I was pregnant. But then I lost the baby. Ups and downs. And then when 'Bande a Part' came along, I was in a really bad shape. I didn't want to be alive any more.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

I made films for soaps and I was the Coca-Cola girl for England. I did a lot popular films, too.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.