Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

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Mads Mikkelsen

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 22, 1965

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

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

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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.'

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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.

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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

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

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I did a TV show called 'Unit 1.' It wasn't a bad experience, but yes, the first season I didn't have a good time because I was coming from Nicolas Winding Refn films where the corners were sharp and radical, but now we had round corners.

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Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

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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.

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I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

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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.

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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

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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.

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

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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

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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.

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Actors are a race.

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