Noomi Rapace Quotes

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, 'How far are you going and when are you coming back?'

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.