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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.

It was never a plan to be an actor.

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've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

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

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

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

Mads Mikkelsen

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

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

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. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.

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

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

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

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

I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

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

If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

Mads Mikkelsen

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

Mads Mikkelsen

I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

Mads Mikkelsen

The script is always the main preparation for me. 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

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

Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

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 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

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

Mads Mikkelsen

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

Mads Mikkelsen

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!

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

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 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.

Mads Mikkelsen

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

Mads Mikkelsen