Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
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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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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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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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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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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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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'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'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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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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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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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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The script is always the main preparation for me. 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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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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Actors are a race.
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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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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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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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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 try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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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 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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Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
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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.