Alexander Skarsgard Quotes
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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.
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Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
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I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.
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When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
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I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
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You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
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I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis, I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in, you know?
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When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
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When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.
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A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
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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.
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It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
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I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.
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I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
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I don't like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It's too much.
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I'm definitely a city kid.
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In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.
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I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
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I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.
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I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
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In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.