100 Quotes by Alexander Skarsgard

We don’t have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society – at least on the surface. There’s a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They’re not too loud, they’re not too quiet, but sometimes it’s a little too perfect.

For me, creatively, I’d suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, “I’ve never done this before, but it’s going to be exciting. It’s scary, but really thrilling, so let’s do it!”

I’m from Sweden. We don’t wear clothes in Sweden.

If you’re a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can’t direct actors. You don’t have to do that in a documentary, if it’s a real documentary.

You can use the internet in a way that’s actually really great. It doesn’t have to be about how amazing you are, or “Come watch my show!,” or “Look what I’m wearing today.” It doesn’t have to be narcissistic.

I’m an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

A hipster is someone who’s very aware of his style.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they’re all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.