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" It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything. "

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" It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home. "

Stellan Skarsgard

Bring

Sandwiches

Tradition

" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "

" It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. "

" The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do. "

" 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. "

" When Lars Von Trier calls me, I say yes without reading the script because often the script hasn't been written yet, and if Fincher called me again, I'd say yes without reading the script, too. "

" We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world. "

Stellan Skarsgard

Bad

Guys

" Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour. "

" Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there. "

" People don't want to read subtitles. "

" 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. "

" I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games. "

" Even the most despicable person is still a human being. "

" I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. "

" It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie. "

" Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults. "

Stellan Skarsgard

Good

Storyteller

" I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written. "

" The only respect you should have is the one you earn. "

" I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy. "

" 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. "

" The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good. "

" I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook. "

Stellan Skarsgard

I Am

Cook

" 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. "

" I love having 30 shots of every scene. "

" In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition. "

" I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again. "

" Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. "

" The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they're interested in. "

" My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family. "

" 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. "