Alicia Vikander

I love crosswords! Actually, when I was growing up, me and my girlfriends would collect them and see who finished them first! ”

I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times. ”

I've always wanted kids. ”

I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different. ”

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words. ”

I've never been able to lift my own weight, and the day when you have that capacity, it's pretty empowering! ”

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn. ”

People always think I'm not scared. I've noticed that whenever I feel stressed, everyone thinks I'm fine, and later, it's like, 'I was not fine.' ”

Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough. ”

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted. ”