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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. "

Stellan Skarsgard

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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. "

" I really enjoy being part of the Marvel Universe. It's a cool bunch of people to work with, and they know what they're doing. "

" The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there. "

" 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. "

" I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels. "

" 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. "

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

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" One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. "

" Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out. "

" 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. "

" There is no overacting, only untrue acting. "

" I've been offered a lot of police series, but I'm very good at staying away from them. They're usually based on such a boring formula. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing. "

" I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman. "

" I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically. "

" When you have kids, you see what's important. "

" I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person. "

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

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

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

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" Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type. "

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" I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position. "

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