Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
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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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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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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'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 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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I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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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 like to stay home with my family.
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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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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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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'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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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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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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'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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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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I can never wink at the audience.
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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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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 think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.
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I've always been extremely physical.
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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.