I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.