Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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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 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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Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
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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 love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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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 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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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 think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
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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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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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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 can never wink at the audience.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.
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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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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've always been extremely physical.