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.

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've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

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.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

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.