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Stellan Skarsgard [1951-0] Swedish
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Actor


Stellan John SkarsgÄrd is a Swedish actor. He is known for his roles as Jan Nyman in Breaking the Waves, Prof. Gerald Lambeau in Good Will Hunting, Bootstrap Bill in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Bill Anderson in Mamma Mia!, Martin Vanger in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and Dr. 


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Even the most despicable person is still a human being.
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I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.
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I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.
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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.
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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.
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It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
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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.
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All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.
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One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
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Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
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Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
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There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
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I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.
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People don't want to read subtitles.
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I love having 30 shots of every scene.
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There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
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