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“Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.”
“Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it's not an unreasonable choice.”
“For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a platform, nine feet high... and it was the rooftop of a skyscraper in New York. And it was all desert around me!”
“The countries where you have the most fear of immigrants are the countries where you have the least immigration.”
“I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.”
“One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.”
“Of course, working with Halle Berry is fantastic. Every day, you're looking at a performance that you would be prepared to pay to watch. She's truly great and truthful, and it's a joy.”
“The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.”
“Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.”
“The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.”
“There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those.”
“I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.”
“I love having 30 shots of every scene.”
“I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position.”