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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

I’m constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It’s completely disproportionate.
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Attention Constant Embarrassed Level Money
Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.
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Eventually Job People Something
Personally I don’t believe in bad people. I think there’s always a reason for people acting badly.
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Believe People Thinking
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.
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People School Thinking
To me, it’s all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.
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Challenges Excited Inspiration
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.
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Acting Kids Older School Smaller
My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I’m pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
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Actors Differences Directors Massive Pretty Sometimes
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.”
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Character Couple Impossible Thinking
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.
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Bad Day Good Looking Now Thinking
I’ve always been a night person. There’s a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person. But as I’ve gotten a bit older, now I’m completely okay with it. That’s just who I am.
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Attached Day Morning Night Person Start Virtue
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.
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Crazy Fun Great Shoot Time Video
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.
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Happened High Idea People Responded Year
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?
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Character Done Feel Incentives InterAction
I come from a family of pacifists, so it’s not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.
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Come Country Family might Month Sweden War
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.
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Character Interesting Struggle
In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.
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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.”

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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.”

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