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

Alexander Skarsgard

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Alexander Skarsgard
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: August 25
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Republic of the Sudan
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård
Swede
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If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.
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I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in.
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We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.
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There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.
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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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You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
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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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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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I was nervous when I first started True Blood because if you do a play or a movie, you know the complete arc of the character. You can see the end. But with a show like True Blood, you don't know what's going to happen.
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Why do I love being naked? Because I was born that way?
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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 don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.
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I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
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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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When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?
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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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A hipster is someone who's very aware of his style.
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My plan was never to be an actor like my father...
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A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But with Funny Or Die we thought we could put an interesting take on it. Make it a little more palatable, especially for young people who tune into the website.
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Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.
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