Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

The evil that we know is best.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

If I look like a six-pack replete warrior in 'Tanu Weds Manu,' viewers are not going accept me.

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

I am proud to be an actor.

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.

I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.