Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

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Mads Mikkelsen

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 22, 1965

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.

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When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

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In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.

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I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.

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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.

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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.

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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 straight way.

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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

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I can never wink at the audience.

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I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

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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.

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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.

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If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

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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?

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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.

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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!

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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.

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