"I needed to be myself and find my own identity." — Bill Skarsgard

I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it.

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

Between 9 A.M. and 10 A.M. is usually when I get up.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person.

Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'

I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.

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I needed to be myself and find my own identity.