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 SKARSGARDI 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.
More Bill Skarsgard Quotes
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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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There’s something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
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In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.
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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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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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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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Personally I don’t believe in bad people. I think there’s always a reason for people acting badly.
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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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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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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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I’m always looking for something that’s real and that’s got meat on it. I think it’s artistic suicide if you’re too vain, or if you’re afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
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Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.
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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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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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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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