Sidse Babett Knudsen Quotes

I was travelling a lot, during the release of 'Dilbar,' to various countries, and the song would be played at random places like lounges, coffee shops, streets, and I realised the song had reached levels that was beyond India.

I haven't been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of 'Big Hero's' success. I'm just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that's come after that has been secondary to the initial response.

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.

'Grey's' has this universal, global thing to it. It works all over the world.

Slumdog Millionaire has been a great achievement. It has opened the doors of Hollywood for Indian cinema.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

I still don't get stopped about anything else anywhere near as much as 'Skins.' The remarkable thing that I've noticed is how far that show has traveled: it's aired all over the world.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

I think 'The West Wing' hit at a moment in time that was just right for that show.

I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

I am up for anything, but my favorite show in the whole world is this English series, 'Skins.' It would be awesome to be able to go on that somehow.

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.

Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.