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.

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.

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.

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.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

When you love, lover is loving you.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

Winner knows nothing about food.

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.