Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

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.
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.
Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.
All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the relationship and take care of the stuff that the director won't take care of.
All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.
Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.
Because of ignorance, I wasn't a big fan of Marvel. I hadn't read the magazines. They were not as big in Europe as they are in the United States. They're more a part of modern American mythology. I know more about the original Thor than the Marvel Thor.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish behavior is what I look for in all of my characters because that is what makes them human.
Even the most despicable person is still a human being.
Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.
Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.
For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a platform, nine feet high... and it was the rooftop of a skyscraper in New York. And it was all desert around me!
From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him.
How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?
I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.
I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism. I am proud of Scandinavia in the sense that we have actually managed to create a very tolerant and human society, which is very livable.
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Stellan Skarsgard
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