Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

People don't want to read subtitles.

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances.

I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four characters in the same play.

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

I don't do sports, really.

I really enjoy being part of the Marvel Universe. It's a cool bunch of people to work with, and they know what they're doing.