“Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I’m the worst liar alive.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“It’s always difficult when you’re working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“Films come and go. Families stay.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I’m an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I think if you just made a film that says, ‘This is anti-war,’ and you had to spend two hours explaining that… you don’t like war? Wow, that’s original. Know what I mean?”
― Pilou Asbaek
“When you watch the films that I’m inspired by – from the ’60s and ’70s – it’s not about the special effects: it’s about the story; it’s about characters and relationships.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound – because we want to go back to basics.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“The most exciting thing about joining ‘Game Of Thrones’ is joining ‘Game Of Thrones.’”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I don’t know – the whole leading man, I don’t buy it.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“On ‘Ghost In The Shell,’ I’m looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!”
― Pilou Asbaek
“As a private person, I am maybe more ‘Eurovision’ than Kasper Juul.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I’m trying to have a family and a career.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I’m a father first.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I think six seasons are telling us one thing about ‘Game of Thrones’: Everyone should watch their back. No one is safe. That’s what I love about the show. I love that it’s so unpredictable.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“For me, it’s very important that the people I’m working with are feeling happy.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“Honestly, I think it’s kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“In ‘A Hijacking,’ the characters are low-status people.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I’m not in a position where I can pick and choose. It’s the other way around. The studios pick and choose.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“Whenever you do a film, it’s always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I started quite late. I didn’t know acting was a job.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I like to do my own stunts, but sometimes you need a little bit of help.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I love my kid. I love a boring life.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I’m not cynical. I cry at ‘ET.’ And ‘Kung Fu Panda!’”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I did half a year of theatre.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I never read anything that’s written about me.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“’Eurovision’ is a party. I’ve never said no to a party, so I’m not saying no to this.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I’m not a religious guy at all.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“Guess what? Human beings are complex.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“Overnight, I became a public figure.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I think a role model is a person who says, ‘This is who I am.’”
― Pilou Asbaek
“That guy in ‘The Simpsons’ – I love Groundskeeper Willie.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I was the first person in the family to be an actor.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn’t anything spectacular at all.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“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.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I did a film called ‘Worlds Apart’ about a Jehovah’s Witness. I was the love interest – the male lead – but the story was about the female lead, a young girl who is a part of this cult, and she wants to break out. She meets a guy who has to help her. She has to find out who she is. It’s more like a coming of age story.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I love ‘Sex and the City,’ but it’s also wonderful that there’s something else other than ‘Sex and the City.’”
― Pilou Asbaek
“I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend’s a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.”
― Pilou Asbaek
“In my mind, I still think – and wish – that I’m going to be a journalist or a writer. That’s been my dream job my entire life.”
― Pilou Asbaek
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