Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

People don't want to read subtitles.

I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

I've done so many sex scenes in my life and it's much easier to do a funny sex scene than a sex scene that is supposed to look like it feels.

You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are new and you still learn things. I still think I can become a much better actor.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'