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I'm a pretty good chess player.
It's hard to act with just your jaw.
I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
It's great to get to work with your idols.
I сan't imagine how ROBOCOP could be PG-13.
I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.
My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.
I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.
A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.
In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.
I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.
I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'
We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.
I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.
I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.
I think I'm a boxer, but then when I get hurt, I'll start scrapping.
I'm a pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.
I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
I think I've seen the first 'RoboCop' like 15 or 20 times. I'm like a kid that way.
It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.
I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.
I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.
I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.
I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.
With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master.
I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!
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.
I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
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.