Bill Skarsgard

“I think December has always been the most haunted month, from the gothic-narrative point of view - a lot of Edgar Allan Poe stories are set in December. It's the last month of the year, and it's supposed to be sort of this mystical, spiritual month. And being Swedish, December is also the darkest month out of the year.”

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

“I always feel like a foreigner in America.”

“I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. I think you have to feel guilty about it. I think it makes you a better person to keep reminding yourself.”

“Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.”

“One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.”

“I think I've gotten that before - people have been like, 'Oh, you have a creepy stare.' My energy personally is not as threatening, I don't think.”

“The soundtrack for 'Hemlock Grove' got me into all this goth folk gypsy music like the Dead Brothers.”

“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?”

“If you ask anybody what they think of clowns, it's associated as much or more with something crazy and scary as it is something joyful.”

“I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it.”

“Until your mid-twenties, you're still growing up mentally. It's fair to say there's a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.”

“I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The horror fan base is fantastic. It really has devoted fans, and I like that aspect of the genre. The people who are making it are always really wonderfully nerdy, creative people, which I always love.”

“I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.”

“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.'”

“I love the story behind the Vasa Museum: in the 17th century, the Swedish king was trying to make a statement by building a huge ship that would sail around Europe carrying the Swedish flag and proving that we were a force to be reckoned with, and basically, the ship was top-heavy, and so it went 300 or so yards and sank.”