Noomi Rapace Quotes

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.

With most movies I've done before, I've done a lot of preparation. I've known about them long before [shooting], and I've prepped and changed my body and done research, and all the things you could imagine.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

Sometimes you just want to go out and tell everybody everything because you're just so full of happiness. It's almost like you're high on it and you just want to tell everybody about your experience, but you're not allowed to say anything.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

I don't look at myself on the outside. Sometimes you feel like you're not really there and need one more [take], because I feel like something is coming out. I don't really know what but I need to get it out.

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.