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" 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. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Way
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Good
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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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" 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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" I like working with Kenneth Branagh. "
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" Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice. "
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" Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements. "
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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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" 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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" All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything. "
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" Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour. "
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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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" It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. "
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" I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games. "
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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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