Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
Best 60 Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen – Page 1 of 2
“Actors are a race.”
“Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.”
“Being physical and doing my own stunts – it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.”
“Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.”
“Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.”
“Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.”
“I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.”
“I became a dancer late and an actor late.”
“I can never wink at the audience.”
“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 did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.”
“I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.”
“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 felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world – it was still running in the theatres – and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.”
“I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.”
“I have the strange ability to shut things out.”
“I like to stay home with my family.”
“I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.”
“I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.”
“I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.”
“I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.”
“I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?”
“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.”
“I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.”
“I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.”
“I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.”
“I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.”
“I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.”
“I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.”
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