I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.

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.

We must be people who love to work

Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

The only real cure for poverty is production.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.