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. – Mads Mikkelsen
I was very energetic and very small. I didn’t start growing until the last year of high school. – Mads Mikkelsen
The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don’t know about, which is the Internet. – Mads Mikkelsen
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. – Mads Mikkelsen
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. – Mads Mikkelsen
I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in ‘The Salvation.’ – Mads Mikkelsen
Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama. – Mads Mikkelsen
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. – Mads Mikkelsen
I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. – Mads Mikkelsen
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. – Mads Mikkelsen
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. – Mads Mikkelsen
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. – Mads Mikkelsen