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I'm not a signing or dancing man.
People don't want to read subtitles.
I love having 30 shots of every scene.
The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.
We don't live. We're miming in the choir.
There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.
I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.
My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.
I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.
A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.
I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.
The only respect you should have is the one you earn.
Even the most despicable person is still a human being.
I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.
I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.
Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.
When I had kids, I became a better actor. I just stole from them.
Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.
My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.
I still live in Sweden. That's my base. When I'm not working, I'm there.
We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.
I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances.
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.
I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.
Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.
How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?
Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.
When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'
I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy.
If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.
The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking.
Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.
if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.
I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games.
Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way.
I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.
I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.
I go where I think I can enjoy myself. Sometimes it's on a big movie, and sometimes it's even on a silly movie.
The countries where you have the most fear of immigrants are the countries where you have the least immigration.
Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.
You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.
The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.
I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!
I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.
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.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.