I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

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.

I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities