Quotes

Mads Mikkelsen

A/N: sorry I haven't updated in a long time. 

"The most beautiful quality of a true friendship is to understand and be understood with absolute clarity."

"Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real." 

"I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place."

"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."

"If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about then."

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

"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."

"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."

"I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places. 

"I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine."

"First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. "

"I chose to work with the people I like to work with." 

"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."

"You cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love with."