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.'

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.

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

There are no incurable ills.