Stellan Skarsgard
Stellan Skarsgard
Stellan John Skarsgård; born 13 June 1951) 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 Chestand Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Bill Anderson in Mamma Mia!, Martin Vanger in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and Dr. Erik Selvig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, and...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 June 1951
CityGothenburg, Sweden
CountrySweden
You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are new and you still learn things. I still think I can become a much better actor.
Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.
It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.
I've done so many sex scenes in my life and it's much easier to do a funny sex scene than a sex scene that is supposed to look like it feels.
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.
I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.
if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
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.
There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.
We don't live. We're miming in the choir.
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.
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.