Alexander Skarsgard Quotes

• I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can’t really get too close to someone who’s too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.

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• I’m pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I’m willing to go there.

   

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• I wasn’t like a Hollywood child actor – ‘I’m five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!’

   

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• When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

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• I’m from Sweden. We don’t wear clothes in Sweden.

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• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society – at least on the surface. There’s a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They’re not too loud, they’re not too quiet, but sometimes it’s a little too perfect.

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• You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone – you don’t see the real person.

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• My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

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• All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they’re all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

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• I’m not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.

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• We don’t have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

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• Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch… the private life is just gone.

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• It’s difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you’re in.

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• Life isn’t one-dimensional. The world isn’t simply divided into good versus evil. I think we’re all capable of both.

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• I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

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• When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator… It was one of the craziest festivals I’ve ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

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• As an actor, what’s interesting is what’s hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond – very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

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Alexander Skarsgard (17)

Birth:	25th August, 1976
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Actor

About

Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgard is a Swedish actor. He is best known for his roles as vampire Eric Northman on the HBO series True Blood, Meekus in Zoolander and Brad Colbert in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. At age 19, he applied to do his national service. He served in the Swedish military for 18 months, in a unit that dealt with anti-sabotage and anti-terrorism in the Stockholm archipelago. After completing his service in 1996 he left Sweden and attended Leeds Metropolitan University in England for six months. He enrolled to study English but admits he did not study much and "had a blast" instead. After seven years away from acting, he started to consider it again. In 1997 he enrolled in a theater course at Marymount Manhattan College and moved to New York City. He returned to Stockholm after six months, but the time he spent studying theater showed him that he wanted to act.

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