Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

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Mads Mikkelsen

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 22, 1965

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

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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.

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Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

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I became a dancer late and an actor late.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I've always been extremely physical.

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I choose work with the people I like to work with.

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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

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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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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

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

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I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.

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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

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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.

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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.

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