Alicia Vikander

“We all body shame and compare bodies, and that needs to go out of the window.”

“I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change.”

“I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.”

“I've always wanted kids.”

“I love big popcorn movies.”

“My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this film.'”

“I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.”

“I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.”

“My dad has children by four different mothers.”

“I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.”

“It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.”

“All the parts I've enjoyed playing the most I didn't know about until they appeared, or it was something I read and fell in love with.”

“In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.”

“People always think I'm not scared. I've noticed that whenever I feel stressed, everyone thinks I'm fine, and later, it's like, 'I was not fine.'”

“That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.”

“I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.”

“I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.”

“I love when I am outside my comfort zone.”

“I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.”

“I love skincare. If anything, my skin goes extremely dry. I could put hand cream on my face, and it still goes in. On flights, I always put on masks, and I have night cream as my day cream.”