149 Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

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.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

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

I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

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.

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

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

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.