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.
Mads MikkelsenI 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.
Mads MikkelsenMachiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
Mads MikkelsenI take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. Iโm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, letโs put it this way. Compromises are from hell.
Mads MikkelsenI'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.
Mads MikkelsenI think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."
Mads Mikkelsen