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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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