Words matter. These are the best Alexander Skarsgard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We don’t have paparazzi following you in Sweden.
I’m from Sweden. We don’t wear clothes in Sweden.
As a teenager, I didn’t want to be an actor at all.
It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
In some people’s eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
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.
I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.
I don’t like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It’s too much.
I don’t really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don’t know what’s next, and that’s what I find quite exciting. I dig it.
On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.
It’s difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you’re in.
There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn’t exist in LA. Sometimes I don’t know if it’s February or April or October, because you’re always sitting outside on the same patio, and it’s 70 degrees.
I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
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.
We are civilized human beings, but we’re all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.
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.
To me, when I watch movies, it’s always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.
My plan was never to be an actor like my father.
I’ve always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ ‘Brave New World,’ and obviously Orwell’s ‘1984.’
There are a lot of Swedes in Hollywood in general. We have a tendency to know each other and help each other out.
The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.
‘True Blood’ was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.
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.
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
It’s all about trying to find those projects where you get to enjoy yourself, because I think that’s when you create as well: when you’re genuinely excited about something. Then you’re not just doing it because it’s your job.
