Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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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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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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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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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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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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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'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.
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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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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've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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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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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 like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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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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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.