Top 105 Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

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

I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

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

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

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

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

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.

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.