Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

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Mads Mikkelsen

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 22, 1965

I like to stay home with my family.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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?'

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

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If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

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

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If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.

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I have the strange ability to shut things out.

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I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

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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.

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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

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