Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

As the only mother on this hearing panel, I think you should go home and get some rest.

I never thought about being a cop. I'm kind of sensitive. I don't know if I could handle that job. It's hard to go home every day and be able to still live your own life because some of the stuff you see really affects you.

I'm a very emotional person. That's every one of my fights; it's all emotions.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

I feel a lot. I get really bad stomachaches all the time. So I went to a doctor, and he said, 'You're a feeler.' I take on people's pain a little too much.

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

I don't know if I would be a good cop. As gruff as I come off, I take things very emotionally.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

We think too much and feel too little.

Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.

I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Compassion Fatigue

In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.