Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

Whenever I am applying myself to something, I can't help but be part of it.

I actually prefer teammates that have emotions. It means you care, compared to a guy that's kind of just nonchalant and goes about it like it doesn't matter. So I want guys that care. I want guys that show they care.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

If you are not emotionally involved, your client is not getting your best effort.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

I really invest a lot... physically and emotionally on my work.

The thing that I've always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It's a complete embrace of something, but I've never been able to say, 'I believe in this.' The only thing I believe in is that I'm in this perpetual state of disbelief.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

I was fascinated by the world. I thought, "I just want to be a part of this world."