Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

"Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place."

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

"I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast."

"I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online."

"Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page."

"We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin."

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

"There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue."

"The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you."

"I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school."

"I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it."

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

"In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast."

"The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved."

"I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity."

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

"Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits."

"I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'."

"Actors are a race."

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

"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."

"Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way."

"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 became a dancer late and an actor late."

"I like to stay home with my family."

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

"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."

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

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

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