A biography for Alexander Skarsgardhasn’t been written yet.
“There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.”
“Routines, or lack thereof, are a pretty good way to get to know someone.”
“Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.”
“The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.”
“I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.”
“I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.”
“I don't like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It's too much.”
“You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.”
“There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.”
“I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'”
“When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.”
“As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.”
“I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'”
“I'm definitely a city kid.”
“I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.”
“To go from 'Generation Kill,' which is a very real, dark, gritty series, to 'True Blood,' which is flamboyant, crazy, way out there... I couldn't ask for two better jobs.”