A biography for Mads Mikkelsenhasn’t been written yet.
“If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.”
“I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.”
“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.”
“Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.”
“It was never a plan to be an actor.”
“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 was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.”
“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.”
“I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.”
“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.”
“The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.”
“I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.”