Alicia Vikander Quotes
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I love big popcorn movies.
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I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.
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Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.
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Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.
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I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.
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I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.
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I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.
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People always think I'm not scared. I've noticed that whenever I feel stressed, everyone thinks I'm fine, and later, it's like, 'I was not fine.'
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I love skincare. If anything, my skin goes extremely dry. I could put hand cream on my face, and it still goes in. On flights, I always put on masks, and I have night cream as my day cream.
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I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.
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I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.
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Jewellery is a way of making a very simple outfit something you can wear to go out.
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In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is.
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I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen.
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This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that just got into a film festival somewhere, that was like the biggest thing you could wish for.
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That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.
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My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.
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I love crosswords! Actually, when I was growing up, me and my girlfriends would collect them and see who finished them first!
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We all body shame and compare bodies, and that needs to go out of the window.
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Working makes me happy, makes me calm.
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All the parts I've enjoyed playing the most I didn't know about until they appeared, or it was something I read and fell in love with.
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For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else.
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My dad has children by four different mothers.
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Helena Bonham Carter was one of my biggest crushes. And Rachel Weisz. I think I told her that when we were filming, which was probably a bit embarrassing.