Alexander Skarsgard

In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.

I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.

I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.

I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis, I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in, you know?

As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.