Mads Mikkelsen

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

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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.

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Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

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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.

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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

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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.

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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.

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Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

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

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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.

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

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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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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 vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

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Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen