Bill Skarsgard Quotes

• To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Inspiration, Challenges, Excited

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• Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

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  Attention, Embarrassed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

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  Thinking, Insecurity, Hubris

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

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  Struggle, Character, Interesting

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• I started acting when I was 9. I did smaller parts here and there as a kid, and then as I grew older I started resisting it, because I didn't like the idea of being, at the time, number four of the Skarsgård actors. So in high school I majored in science and was like, "Maybe I'll do something rebellious and become a doctor."

  Bill Skarsgard

  School, Kids, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

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  Suicide, Real, Fall

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• I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

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  Identity, Needed, My Own

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• It's not about being proud of Sweden; it's just a sense of belonging. Even if you've lived in a place for a long time, those first formative years are going to be a part of you forever, and it's something you can't replace.

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  Long, Forever, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person. But as I've gotten a bit older, now I'm completely okay with it. That's just who I am.

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  Morning, Night, Start The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.

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  Jobs, Play, Guy

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• I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

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  Thinking, Roles, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• It's funny: it takes a while to really get your character. It's impossible to do it on the first day. That's the same way in films; if you start shooting a film, maybe a couple weeks in, you're like, "Ah! Now I think I really get him."

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  Couple, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?

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  Character, Done, Incentives

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• My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

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  Differences, Directors, Actors

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• I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.

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  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

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  War, Sweden, Might

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• I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

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  Years, California, Six

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• In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Black And White, White, Black

  "Alexander Skarsgård: Interview with a vampire" by Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.

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  Fun, Crazy, Video

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• I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

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  Good Day, Bad Day, Thinking

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• There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

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  June, Sweden, January

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• Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

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  Teenage, Thinking, Years

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• TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

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  Thinking, Tvs, Not Happy

  Source: collider.com

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• I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people."

  Bill Skarsgard

  Country, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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