Mads Quotes

Oh, now... being mad's not all that bad. ~ A.G. Howard

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy." ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

Tell me what you want, Mads."
"You," she said in a shaky whisper. "I want you, Ronan. ~ Sara Humphreys

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

TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I have the strange ability to shut things out. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Let them know men did this. ~ Mads Mikkelsen, Clash Of The Titans [2010]

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Predominantly 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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both really wanted to work with. He's intimidating, but has a really big heart and he's sexy. He's got this sexiness, even guys fall for him. He just penetrates everything-not literally. So we needed a brokenhearted thug that could really give us the heartache. And going between the violence and viciousness and the complete softness without making it too much. A lot of those characters can go into a charade, and I needed it to be genuine heartbrokenness and that's what he's great at doing. ~ Fredrik Bond

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, the whole palace is upset. "You must go back to sleep," her mother tells her, "It's not time." From what she understands, the Prince hasn't come to rescue her yet. ~ Mads Sukalikar

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

There's always women who show up who... they don't really want a baby, you know? They're just lonely. And you kind of feel like a gigolo here. You're supposed to look good. Charm the women, make them feel comfortable. You just don't have sex with them. ~ Kim Golden

Mads is such a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time - when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes. ~ Gillian Anderson

When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.' ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

When you do a TV show, there's always the fear that it will become tired and you'll know exactly what's going to happen. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

I've always wondered about your name," Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship. ~ Mads Sukalikar

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

I can never wink at the audience. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.' ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert Grint and Til Schweiger and those guys, so you really want to make sure that they, that I don't have to shut off the camera because I'm running out of film or it becomes too expensive. ~ Fredrik Bond

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song. ~ Joel Hodgson

The day the Dragon chooses a male virgin instead of a female as his yearly sacrifice, the entire kingdom erupts into mass protests and anger. ~ Mads Sukalikar

Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people by doing practically nothing and terrifying the sh*t out of you. He is the most astonishingly subtle performer with the most incredibly keen sense of what his face can do and how his words can form. He has a mission. Nothing is by chance. I truly believe as long as we have success in seasons that Mads will become the defining face of Hannibal Lecter. ~ David Slade

I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.' ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?
Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. ~ William Shakespeare

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is. ~ Laurence Fishburne

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Today, Mihir stopped a bomb from killing the Tahitian President but not from shattering his own collar bone. So, he is now in the operating chamber, undergoing his 250th reconstruction. The nurses have tied a balloon to his bed that says, "Don't make it to 251! ~ Mads Sukalikar

I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

The last TV show I binged on was 'Hannibal' because it stars two of my friends, Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, who I first met filming 'King Arthur' back in 2003, and I just lapped this show up; loved it. ~ Joel Edgerton

I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it. ~ Michael Pitt

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

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

Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends ~ Mads

Mads Mori. Poor kid sounded like an assassin. ~ Penelope Douglas

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen was here to make neither friends nor feminist stands. She was here to ruin Maisie's career! ~ Mads Sukalikar

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?' ~ Mads Mikkelsen

If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

The next morning, boom! She found herself waking in bed next to the handsome, rogue-supporting character of her favourite novel. Out of the blue, Mary Sue was inside the #1 bestseller, epic fantasy novel ever written. ~ Mads Sukalikar

I've always been extremely physical. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

Denmark is a small place. We all know each other. ~ Mads Mikkelsen