Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right.

I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.

To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I do all my own stunts!

I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it.

That one was stunt heavy. 'Monster Trucks' was a lot of stunts. I got to do some insane stunts they should've never let me do.

I like being able to do all of my own stunts. I appreciate stunt guys and what they do and, of course, the time and the effort that they put in, but for me, I'm young. You only live once, so to be able to do all your own stunts, train, become a real fighter... I feel like I can hold my own.

You cannot expect to make an action movie without getting bruises.

I like doing violent movies.

I would love to do an action film.

Yeah loads of bruises and welts, usually around the hip, arse, thigh region and elbows. Elbows got knocked up big time, but it was so much fun. I hadn't done a meaty action film in seven or eight years, so it was fun to explore that aspect of storytelling again.

I love that they do that. I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.

For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.

I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.