Top 30 Pilou Asbaek Quotes

I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.

I’m not cynical. I cry at ‘ET.’ And ‘Kung Fu Panda!’

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.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.

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

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

For me, it’s very important that the people I’m working with are feeling happy.

I have no ambitions at all! I have none… seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don’t have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.

I love my kid. I love a boring life.

I did half a year of theatre.

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

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.

It was great fun being part of a TV series that I’d been a fan of for five years. I’ve been watching it every single Monday when with my wife. It was like a ritual – every Monday night on HBO Nordic, we would watch ‘Game of Thrones’ together.

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

I’m not a religious guy at all.

I don’t know – the whole leading man, I don’t buy it.

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.

Films come and go. Families stay.

In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you’re born with the title. You don’t get elected. I don’t know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don’t know how that would end up.

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.

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.

I like to do my own stunts, but sometimes you need a little bit of help.

I love ‘Sex and the City,’ but it’s also wonderful that there’s something else other than ‘Sex and the City.’

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

That guy in ‘The Simpsons’ – I love Groundskeeper Willie.

I’m trying to have a family and a career.

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

I never read anything that’s written about me.

I’m a father first.