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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.
I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
My plan was never to be an actor like my father...
A hipster is someone who's very aware of his style.
Why do I love being naked? Because I was born that way?
I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.
It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.
I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
Routines, or lack thereof, are a pretty good way to get to know someone.
To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.
I don't like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It's too much.
The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.
'True Blood' was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.
On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.
In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.
I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
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!'
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!"
Sweden is a good country to raise a family in because there is an equality there I don't feel in the States.
If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.
There are a lot of Swedes in Hollywood in general. We have a tendency to know each other and help each other out.
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.
I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.
I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.
All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.
I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.
I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.
I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in.
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis, I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in, you know?
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.
I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
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.
When you meet someone, of course you want it to last forever. It'd be very depressing if you didn't feel that way. But things change, and you maybe grow apart. You have to accept that.
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.
When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?
I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.
I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.
You can use the internet in a way that's actually really great. It doesn't have to be about how amazing you are, or "Come watch my show!," or "Look what I'm wearing today." It doesn't have to be narcissistic.