Quotes from Pilou Asbaek

As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.

I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.'

I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.

If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.

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.

Films come and go. Families stay.

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.

On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!

Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.

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.

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.

I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

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.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul.

I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.

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.

One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise people; 'I hate this politician, I hate what they do.' You are doing this right now with Margaret Thatcher, but sometimes it's hard to be a politician. I'm not defending Margaret Thatcher, but we believe our statesmen are also human beings.

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 not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not an alpha male.

In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.