Alexander Skarsgard Quotes
I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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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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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.
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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.
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I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.
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Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
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Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.
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I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
