Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

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Stellan Skarsgard

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 13, 1951

I really enjoy being part of the Marvel Universe. It's a cool bunch of people to work with, and they know what they're doing.

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I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.

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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.

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I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.

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The only respect you should have is the one you earn.

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The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.

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I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.

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When you have kids, you see what's important.

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Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.

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Of course, working with Halle Berry is fantastic. Every day, you're looking at a performance that you would be prepared to pay to watch. She's truly great and truthful, and it's a joy.

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I go where I think I can enjoy myself. Sometimes it's on a big movie, and sometimes it's even on a silly movie.

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How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

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When Lars Von Trier calls me, I say yes without reading the script because often the script hasn't been written yet, and if Fincher called me again, I'd say yes without reading the script, too.

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It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

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Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

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I like working with Kenneth Branagh.

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My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

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Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

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We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.

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It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

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