Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

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Stellan Skarsgard

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 13, 1951

The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they're interested in.

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Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

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You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.

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Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way.

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I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written.

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Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

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We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

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I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!

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I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.

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I've been offered a lot of police series, but I'm very good at staying away from them. They're usually based on such a boring formula.

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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.

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I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

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I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.

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I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.

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I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're going back to medieval times.

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I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.

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The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking.

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I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.

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There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those.

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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!

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