Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

Oh my love, I like to vanish in you like a ripple vanishes in an ocean—slowly, silently, and endlessly.

I always wondered why god has not given us wings ... it has given us Will instead .. fly or not not to fly.. its up to us

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.