Alexander Skarsgard Quotes
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.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
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I'm a blue-shirt guy.
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I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.
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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.
