Latest Bill Skarsgard Quotes from Interviews

• I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Thinking, Insecurity, Hubris

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.

  Bill Skarsgard

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I started acting when I was 9. I did smaller parts here and there as a kid, and then as I grew older I started resisting it, because I didn't like the idea of being, at the time, number four of the Skarsgård actors. So in high school I majored in science and was like, "Maybe I'll do something rebellious and become a doctor."

  Bill Skarsgard

  School, Kids, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Attention, Embarrassed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's not about being proud of Sweden; it's just a sense of belonging. Even if you've lived in a place for a long time, those first formative years are going to be a part of you forever, and it's something you can't replace.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Long, Forever, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people."

  Bill Skarsgard

  Country, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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. But as I've gotten a bit older, now I'm completely okay with it. That's just who I am.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Morning, Night, Start The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

  Bill Skarsgard

  Thinking, Roles, Want

  Source: collider.com

• It's funny: it takes a while to really get your character. It's impossible to do it on the first day. That's the same way in films; if you start shooting a film, maybe a couple weeks in, you're like, "Ah! Now I think I really get him."

  Bill Skarsgard

  Couple, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Thinking, Tvs, Not Happy

  Source: collider.com