Eklund Quotes

#1. Dr. Eklund was utterly dumbfounded. Did the prime minister think that a waiter who had dropped out of school before he was ten years old could be put to use to build atom bombs for Sweden?

Jonas Jonasson

#2. It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

Michael Eklund

#3. The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.

Michael Eklund

#4. If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

Michael Eklund

#5. Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

Michael Eklund

#6. I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

Bill Hader

#7. With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

Michael Eklund

#8. I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions.

Michael Eklund

#9. At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.

Ram Dass

#10. I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.

Michael Eklund

#11. Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

Michael Eklund

#12. Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.

Michael Eklund

#13. Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.

Michael Eklund

#14. With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

Michael Eklund

#15. Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

John Piper

#16. I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me ...

Claude Monet

#17. Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

Michael Eklund

#18. I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Robert Rodriguez

#19. I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share.

Michael Eklund

#20. I've had a couple of people come up to me after screenings and say they kind of sympathized with the character. I always get a kick out of it when people say that. It means I did something maybe a little bit to the credit of the character.

Michael Eklund

#21. Trees do not require you to make certain sounds to be understood. They are simply present and ready for you to climb at any time. Trees are easier.

Ned Hayes

#22. I like playing characters with internal problems.

Michael Eklund

#23. A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#24. I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

Michael Eklund

#25. With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.

Michael Eklund

#26. That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.

Michael Eklund