Alexander Skarsgard Quotes
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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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The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.
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I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
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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'm definitely a city kid.
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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 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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As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
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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 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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In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
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On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.
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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 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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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.