Alicia Vikander Quotes

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Alicia Vikander

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 3, 1988

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

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I love skincare. If anything, my skin goes extremely dry. I could put hand cream on my face, and it still goes in. On flights, I always put on masks, and I have night cream as my day cream.

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I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

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This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that just got into a film festival somewhere, that was like the biggest thing you could wish for.

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I don't have the best feet.

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I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.

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I've never been able to lift my own weight, and the day when you have that capacity, it's pretty empowering!

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I love big popcorn movies.

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Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.

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I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

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My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this film.'

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In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you.

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I can say the one good thing is for every year where I grow up, I am kinder to myself, and I would say to the younger version of me, 'I love my body, and I have learnt to stop looking in the mirror at the things I want to change.'

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I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

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Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

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Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever.

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I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.

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I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.

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That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.

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I love crosswords! Actually, when I was growing up, me and my girlfriends would collect them and see who finished them first!

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