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.
Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.
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."
To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
There's always some extent of luck going into getting a job. I try not to think too much about my own looks or how I work. There's a danger in becoming too self-aware.
The soundtrack for 'Hemlock Grove' got me into all this goth folk gypsy music like the Dead Brothers.
The horror fan base is fantastic. It really has devoted fans, and I like that aspect of the genre. The people who are making it are always really wonderfully nerdy, creative people, which I always love.
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
Playing Pennywise will change my life and career forever. It's going to change my path. And who knows where that path might lead me?
One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.
Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'
My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.
In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.
In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
If you ask anybody what they think of clowns, it's associated as much or more with something crazy and scary as it is something joyful.
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've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.
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.
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
I'm a pretty private person, so I don't mind not being recognized.
I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.
I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.
I think I've gotten that before - people have been like, 'Oh, you have a creepy stare.' My energy personally is not as threatening, I don't think.
I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.
I started acting when I was 9.
I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that's a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they're different people - and then get paid for it!
I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.
I needed to be myself and find my own identity.
