Quotes from Mads Mikkelsen

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.

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

Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

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.

I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

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

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 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.

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

I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.

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

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.