Mads Mikkelsen's Quotes

Actors are a race.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

I like to stay home with my family.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I've always been extremely physical.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

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

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

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.