I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

You have to think before speaking. That's a quality I'm continuously evolving. For some reason, it seems like I'm bumping my head into the wall a little bit too many times.

As actors we're like these vagabond artists, we have to be invited to perform so if you don't have a choice of options its very hard to define yourself.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do Snabba Cash, after watching The Killing, I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.

You're not able to do a lot of projects because you don't have a name. I wanted to get my movies to come over that hedge, so that I could do the movies that I wanted to do.

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing.

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.