Stellan Skarsgard Quotes

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Stellan Skarsgard

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 13, 1951

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

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You learn a lot from kids.

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When I had kids, I became a better actor. I just stole from them.

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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.

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A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.

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Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

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I am not only lucky to be an actor, but I am lucky to be one of the most privileged actors in the world because I can do all kinds of films and genres and everything.

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My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.

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My parents were rather unconventional and did not accept rules unless they thought they were defendable. They were atheists when Sweden was a very Christian country.

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The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.

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My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family.

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I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position.

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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.

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When you work in Norway, you actually have to have a contract about lunches because Norwegians don't eat lunch normally, so they just throw out a loaf of bread and some coldcuts.

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It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home.

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Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.

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The countries where you have the most fear of immigrants are the countries where you have the least immigration.

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You could probably ask anyone who loves Fincher films, and they couldn't answer why.

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You don't know why you fall in love.

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If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.

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