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

Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

II know a little about Greek mythology. It’s not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

— Mads Mikkelsen

I like to stay home with my family.

— Mads Mikkelsen

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they’re safe.

— 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

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

— Mads Mikkelsen

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that’s where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

— Mads Mikkelsen

I have an enormous metabolism, so I’m lucky.

— Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

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

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

— Mads Mikkelsen

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

— 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’m in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren’t working. I’m actually able to go to France and work. It’s a situation I couldn’t have dreamt up.

— Mads Mikkelsen

I’ve always been extremely physical.

— 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’m not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I’m looking to make a really great film.

— 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 became a dancer late and an actor late.

— Mads Mikkelsen

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