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“I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.”
“I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.”
“We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.”
“In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.”
“There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.”
“It's hard to act with just your jaw.”
“I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.”
“If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.”
“I feel like I've got the best job in the world. I just feel so fortunate to get paid to be a kid and play with my friends. So if it's rough or a little bit hot, you just have to deal with that.”
“I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.”
“What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original.”
“Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.”
“It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.”
“I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.”
“When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.”
“All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.”
“I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.”
“I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.”
“In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.”
“We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.”