Top 25 Peter Stormare Quotes

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it’s funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and it’s because, being European, I usually get cast as bad guys. It’s just how it is.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

Steve Buscemi, in between takes, becomes like a clam. It’s hard to get a word out of him. It’s very funny.

I drive one car. I own one house. That’s enough for me.

Everyone that’ve been here, working, living as Americans – just give them a green card.

How brittle life is, yet it’s been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe we should sit down and pay tribute to life instead of just destruction.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I’m in a band. When it comes to movies and TV, I like to work in everything and with everyone. I wanna do it all, beyond even the screen.

I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

I started as a director very young and fell into acting.

The beautiful thing about ‘American Gods’ is that it’s very simple at its core.

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

The best paycheck you can get as a producer and creator is when people are happy to be on the show.

I never want to get tied to one project or be in one TV show forever.

I have the luxury of being a little boy… To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

I came on board ‘Clown’ because it was a very simple story, and it was a very nice script and a very refreshing take on a kind of The Brothers Grimm fable, you know?

I’m a curious human being, and I love things that are a little bit off.

If I ran for president, the first thing I’d do is legalize everyone who’s been here paying taxes, working, paying taxes. Mothers and fathers of kids born in the U.S. should get a green card.

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate – not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, ‘Isn’t art supposed to be difficult?’ If we can all do art, then it’s not really art. It’s supposed to be difficult.

I don’t ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

I don’t personally like slasher movies that make you scream in the movie theater.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

People who are registered to vote should vote. I vote all the time. If I’m not in the country, I do it over mail. Sometimes I don’t know who the people are – I just pick whatever girl is Democratic.