If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

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

When you do a TV show, there's always the fear that it will become tired and you'll know exactly what's going to happen.

I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."

I've always been extremely physical.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

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. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell.