Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 27, 1970

I love team sports.

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You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.

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I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it's about how she grows up in New York. There's no obvious reason why I should enjoy this - I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I'm a guy from a small town in Denmark.

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I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.

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I love skiing.

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I work a lot abroad and have the most wonderful family and kids, but being away, you do miss out sometimes. I really hope I won't regret the choices in the future.

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My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.

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I haven't really got any hidden talents.

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I don't necessarily enjoy being at the gym. It's something I have to do, more than something I look forward to doing. But it does enable me to do fun things.

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Still, to this day, I can't run on the treadmill. Why not just run outside? I never understood it.

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I always feel for the younger cast members in 'Game of Thrones.' They're really clever and smart.

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I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

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There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.

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I'm a fan of Ed Norton.

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Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.

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Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.

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I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

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I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. I don't think you can generalize, though, and what works for me may not work for other people, but I don't think everybody cheats. We're all different.

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It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

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