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Mads Mikkelsen Biography

Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen, R (Danish: [mas ˈmiɡl̩sn̩] ( listen); born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and dancer, he began his career as an actor in 1996. He rose to fame in Denmark as Tonny the drug dealer in the first two films of the Pusher film trilogy, and in his role as the brash yet sensitive policeman, Allan Fischer, in Peter Thorsboe's Danish television series Rejseholdet (Unit One) (2000–03).

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

Bad Guys, Guy, Ifs, Like, Playing

Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.

Concept, Everyone, Make, Stars, Want, War

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. I have quite a few suits that I really enjoy wearing but, unlike Hannibal, I like wearing them only at special occasions.

Guy, Like, Special, Sports, Time

Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

Character, Everything, Lets, Old, Ribs, Stuff

I'm very dedicated to the things I do.

Dedicated, Things

The criteria [to take or refuse the role] is that I would love to have some kind of dialogue or communication with the director. I need to understand that we can communicate and that we like communication. That's something I have to have a strong feeling about. Secondly, I have to find the script intriguing or interesting. I don't have to understand the whole script, but I do have to find it intriguing. If those two things are present, that would probably be a yes.

Communication, Present, Refuse, Strong, Two

I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can't play around for eight hours and see if something happens.

Eight, Force, Hours, Play, Think, Thinking

I'd just love to see the next Star Wars films when they come out because I'm very into the whole universe and the stories. So they're always rewarding.

Love, Rewarding, Star, Stars, Stories, War

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

Air, Character, Fast, Low, Personality, Split

I think the days are over where we were okay with bad guys just doing the pirate laugh and eating kids just for fun. There has to be a goal, you know? They have to have a point, and they have to make sense.

Days, Fun, Goal, Kids, Thinking

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

Fast, Knowing, Live, Meaning Of Life, Thinking

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell.

Ambitious, Annoying, Careers, Fairly, Jobs, Way

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle. . . billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

Adhd, Billions, Crazy, Growing, Jobs, Kids

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

Denmark, Man, Men, Sexiest

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works.

Certain, Crowds, Everybody, People, Want, Watching

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Away, Far Away, Greek, Know, Littles, Mythology

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

Action, Bruised, Real, Way

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

Littles, People, Psychics, Shops, Terrified

I would have turned any offer down, if it had turned into a thriller. I would have seen no point in a thriller here. I don't need to entertain people, on top of what we were doing. It's not a question of whether he did it or not. I would have thought that was banal and uninteresting, and I wouldn't care. And it could have also turned into a shoot-out because there were a lot of guns in the film.

Down, Gun, Guns, Needs, People, Uninteresting

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

Behaving, Casinos, Easily, People, Way

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