Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

About Mads Mikkelsen:

Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and dancer, he began his career as an actor in 1996. He rose to fame in Denmark as Tonny the drug dealer in the first two films of the Pusher film trilogy, and in his role as the brash yet sensitive policeman, Allan Fischer, in Peter Thorsboe's Danish television series Rejseholdet (Unit One) (2000–2003).
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II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

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

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

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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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Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

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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 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 growin...

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I became a dancer late and an actor late.

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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 enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

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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.

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

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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've always been extremely physical.

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I like to stay home with my family.

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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 choose work with the people I like to work with.

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Author Bio

  • NameMads Mikkelsen
  • DescriptionDanish actor
  • BornNovember 22, 1965
  • CountryDenmark
  • ProfessionActor