Bill Skarsgard Quotes

#1. In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

Bill Skarsgard

#2. 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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#3. I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

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#4. To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

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#5. 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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#6. I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.

Daniel Tosh

#7. I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

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#8. 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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#9. Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.

Claude C. Hopkins

#10. We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#11. Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Matthew Shipp

#21. Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

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#22. I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

Bill Skarsgard