Mads Mikkelsen famous quotes

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Believe #Wine #Men

I would have turned any offer down, if it had turned into a thriller. I would have seen no point in a thriller here. I don't need to entertain people, on top of what we were doing. It's not a question of whether he did it or not. I would have thought that was banal and uninteresting, and I wouldn't care. And it could have also turned into a shoot-out because there were a lot of guns in the film.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Gun #People #Care

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Art #Suits #Three

I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Girl #Sweet #Evil

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.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Girl #Beer #Men

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Running #Thinking #Kind

I guess they have to label someone the sexiest person in the world, and it is always someone who is on telly even if it’s the weatherman. For a couple of years it was me and then it was someone else. It’s nicer being the sexiest man than the most ugly man. I live with it, and I don’t mind it, but I don’t go around with a big smile on my face everyday.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Couple #Men #Years

The criteria [to take or refuse the role] is that I would love to have some kind of dialogue or communication with the director. I need to understand that we can communicate and that we like communication. That's something I have to have a strong feeling about. Secondly, I have to find the script intriguing or interesting. I don't have to understand the whole script, but I do have to find it intriguing. If those two things are present, that would probably be a yes.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Strong #Communication #Interesting

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Greek #Littles #Far Away

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#World #Language #French Language

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.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Beautiful #Kids #Animal

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Psychics #People #Littles

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Thinking #Knowing #Meaning Of Life

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. I have quite a few suits that I really enjoy wearing but, unlike Hannibal, I like wearing them only at special occasions.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Sports #Guy #Special

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Fans #Film #Reason

I became a dancer late and an actor late.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Dancer #Actors

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Way #Film #Fantastic

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises. Let's put it this way: compromises are from hell.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Jobs #Careers #Ambitious

I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Thinking #Play #Eight

Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Character #Elbows #Knees

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.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Done #Pieces #Research

I've always been extremely physical.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

I dont wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. Thats basically what I smell like.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Smell #Deodorant #Showers

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.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Jobs #Crazy #School

I choose work with the people I like to work with.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#People

I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Men #Denmark #Sexiest

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Guy

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Real #Way #Action

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Challenges #Film #Really Great

I come from a culture where you don’t divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film,
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Culture #Tvs #Film

I like to stay home with my family.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Home #My Family

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#People #Casinos #Way

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Lucky #Metabolism #Enormous

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#People #World #Cold

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Guy

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.
-- Mads Mikkelsen

#Book #Talking #People