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Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.

Bill Skarsgard

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
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.
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Acting Country Forth Guess Prominent Sound
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
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 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
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
In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.
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Black Black And White White
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.
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Confidence Crumble More Rooted Sense
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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Own Roles Thing Thinking Want
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
At the time, number four of the Skarsgård actors. So in high school I majored in science and was like, “Maybe I’ll do something rebellious and become a doctor.”
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Doctor Like Majored Rebellious Science Something
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 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.
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Brother Doctors Education Mother Older
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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