Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.

I started at drama school at 18.

Acting is definitely something I want to do after I finish playing basketball.

When I was a little younger, I realized acting is a wonderful craft, and it's wonderful when you are working.

I had the acting bug from a very early age.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

Acting is a youthful profession.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

I didn't study acting.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

You know, I love acting.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

I am an actor through and through.

I didn't go to acting school.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.