There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

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.

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.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.