Mads Mikkelsen Quotes:- Mads Mikkelsen (born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and dancer, he began acting in 1996. He rose to fame in Denmark as Tonny the drug dealer in the first two films of the Pusher film trilogy.
Inspirational 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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered are bad guys.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’m not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I’m looking to make a really great film.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“If you’re not bruised up, then you’re not doing an action film in a real way.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’m a big fan of the film for one reason: because it is visual.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’ve always been extremely physical.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I choose to work with the people I like to work with.”-Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen Quotes and Sayings
“I’d rather be voted ‘the sexiest man in Denmark’ than ‘the ugliest man in Denmark’.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“If David Bowie wants, I’ll put him in my phone book.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I vividly remember Charles Bronson’s face in ‘Chino.’ The western genre is screaming for a face like that.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I have the strange ability to shut things out.”-Mads Mikkelsen
Famous Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’ve always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don’t know about, which is the Internet.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’ve never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like – one of the best westerns I’ve seen is ‘Unforgiven.’ I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straightforward way.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“TV is obviously so different from the film: because it’s a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he’s fast or slow, or heavy or light.”-Mads Mikkelsen
Best Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
“I haven’t watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don’t watch that many films anymore – partly because I don’t have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’ve never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’m engaged to Hollywood. If there’s something I find I have to do, I’ll do it. Otherwise, I’ll just stay at home and have a vacation.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“If I was doing ‘The Hunt’ constantly, I would get very old, very fast.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I go to the pub, hang out with my family – that’s pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I’m actually a pretty mellow guy.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in ‘The Salvation.'”-Mads Mikkelsen
“Once in a while, when I’m out on the lawn, I’ll jump around and do a couple of things. Here’s a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that’s how it goes, and it doesn’t stop me. I’m always ready to do something that hurts a little!”-Mads Mikkelsen
Greatest Mads Mikkelsen Quotes And Sayings
“Being physical and doing my own stunts – it is fun to do these kinds of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don’t get it. If you do get it, they’re the best thing in the world.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I’ve been able to do different things.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we’ll have to have a family meeting.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I know a little about Greek mythology. It’s not that far away from the Nordic mythology.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“There’s no such thing as easy, but it’s easier when a script is good.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“When I was a kid, I wasn’t looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at ‘James Bond’ and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.”-Mads Mikkelsen
Top Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
“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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it’s instant death to creativity.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I’m very proud of ‘Valhalla Rising.'”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I don’t necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something real in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero – it’s all down to the writing.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there – it’s so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I have an older brother who is an actor as well.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“The script is always the main preparation for me. 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.”-Mads Mikkelsen
“I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, ‘Avatar’ did it.”-Mads Mikkelsen
