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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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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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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When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'
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My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.
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I actually haven't been on many dates, but I like just chilling around at home and watching a movie with a girl.
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You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work.
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I did two master's degrees - aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.
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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.'
