I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.

When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.

Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

I've always been extremely physical.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

Actors are a race.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.

Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

I like to stay home with my family.

I can never wink at the audience.

A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.