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

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

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

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

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

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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.

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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

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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.

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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.

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