Alexander Skarsgard Quotes
The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm's golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I'm so competitive, I don't want to go and just pretend I'm a good golfer.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it's a big, bad world or that it's a dirty world.
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I've flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.
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The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.
