Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

If you think I write stories where it is all right to just be good enough, are you kidding? You think I have a cavalier attitude on throwing stuff out? Are you kidding? I am not cavalier about what I do for a living.

I never compromise with my work.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

So, they have the same vibe of like that fun kind of spirit, but this one's a lot more serious. It's like, get it done, get it done right, you know? It's got to be perfect. We definitely do lots of takes on this.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.