Alexander Skarsgard Quotes
I was thirteen, and I did a movie that got attention, and I got attention, and I didn't like it - it made me uncomfortable - so I just quit. And then I was trying to figure out what to do and was worthless at everything, so I was like, 'All right, I'll try acting again.'
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.
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I was thirteen, and I did a movie that got attention, and I got attention, and I didn't like it - it made me uncomfortable - so I just quit. And then I was trying to figure out what to do and was worthless at everything, so I was like, 'All right, I'll try acting again.'
