Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

Who you are as a person has a lot to do with who you are as meat

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

I never asked for stimulus.

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.