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" I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments. "
Stellan Skarsgard
World
Peace
Who
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" We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world. "
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" I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy. "
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" Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world. "
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" Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults. "
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" Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes. "
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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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" Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way. "
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" With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making. "
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" I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. "
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" Even the most despicable person is still a human being. "
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" I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked. "
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" I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton. "
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Skeleton
Good
" You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be. "
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Good
Director
" 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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" Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour. "
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Hard
Acting
" Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive. "
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" The biggest enemy of any actor is fear. "
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Fear
" I like working with Kenneth Branagh. "
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" We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff. "
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You
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" It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. "
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Fast
" Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. "
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" The only respect you should have is the one you earn. "
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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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" I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society. "
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" I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook. "
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" I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything! "
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" I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading. "
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" I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting. "
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World
School
" My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing. "
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Other
" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "
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