black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I don’t want to ever think that I don’t know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, “I did this.”

Bill Skarsgard

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.
BILL SKARSGARD

Character Interesting Struggle
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.
BILL SKARSGARD

Crazy Fun Great Shoot Time Video
Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.
BILL SKARSGARD

Eventually Job People Something
There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
BILL SKARSGARD

Country January June Stark
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.
BILL SKARSGARD

Bad Day Good Looking Now Thinking
In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.
BILL SKARSGARD

Black Black And White White
I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents’ education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
BILL SKARSGARD

Brother Doctors Education Mother Older
When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there’s something I’m gonna’ learn here? If I feel like it’s something I’ve done before, then what’s the incentive for me to do it?
BILL SKARSGARD

Character Done Feel Incentives InterAction
I don’t think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist – that was the point of it.
BILL SKARSGARD

People School Thinking
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.
BILL SKARSGARD

Confidence Crumble More Rooted Sense
I started acting when I was 9. I did smaller parts here and there as a kid, and then as I grew older I started resisting it, because I didn’t like the idea of being.
BILL SKARSGARD

Acting Kids Older School Smaller
Personally I don’t believe in bad people. I think there’s always a reason for people acting badly.
BILL SKARSGARD

Believe People Thinking
To me, it’s all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.
BILL SKARSGARD

Challenges Excited Inspiration
It’s funny: it takes a while to really get your character. It’s impossible to do it on the first day. That’s the same way in films; if you start shooting a film, maybe a couple weeks in, you’re like, “Ah! Now I think I really get him.”
BILL SKARSGARD

Character Couple Impossible Thinking
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family’s pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn’t like the sound of just being ‘the fourth acting Skarsgard.
BILL SKARSGARD

Acting Country Forth Guess Prominent Sound
I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to.
BILL SKARSGARD

Happened High Idea People Responded Year

I don’t want to ever think that I don’t know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, “I did this.”

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I don’t want to ever think that I don’t know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, “I did this.”

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Skarsgard Quotes