Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

I really like people who have the gift of the gab. I like characters that are very eloquent, articulate and confident in what they're saying. Especially coming off 'Captain America,' who's very internal and intimate, I'd love to play someone who wears their emotions on their sleeves, potentially to a fault.

I'm an intense person.

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.

I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

I am someone that is very hard to handle. I'm very picante, intense... Sometimes I'm very outgoing and spontaneous and super hyper. Latinas, we love to touch each other - like, cuddle. That's why a lot of people are intimidated.

This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

I was one of those girls people called 'intense.'

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

One must always love passionately.

Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.

It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on him, it's hard to keep him that stripped down.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.