Stellan Skarsgard quotes

Even the most despicable person is still a human being. (Stellan Skarsgard)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

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I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

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

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I love having 30 shots of every scene.

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Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world. (Stellan Skarsgard)

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. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting.

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I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

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I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.

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People don't want to read subtitles.

Stellan Skarsgard

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.

Stellan Skarsgard

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

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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