Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

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.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

I spent a summer in Texas when I was eight, in Fredericksburg, which is, like, real Texas. It's, like, cowboys and stuff. That was my first time in the States, and I was eight years old. It was also the first time I tasted Dr. Pepper, which blew my mind.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

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.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

I don't like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It's too much.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

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.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

I'm always going with my visceral reaction when I read a script. I am more drawn to characters who are conflicted, and in developing a character exploration. If it's a baddie, I'm rarely intrigued, and if it's a goody two-shoes - too much of a good guy - I'm not, either.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

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.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

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.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.