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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?

I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that.

The soundtrack for 'Hemlock Grove' got me into all this goth folk gypsy music like the Dead Brothers.

Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'

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

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.'

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

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 liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

I love the story behind the Vasa Museum: in the 17th century, the Swedish king was trying to make a statement by building a huge ship that would sail around Europe carrying the Swedish flag and proving that we were a force to be reckoned with, and basically, the ship was top-heavy, and so it went 300 or so yards and sank.

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.

Until your mid-twenties, you're still growing up mentally. It's fair to say there's a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.

I started acting when I was 9.

Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.

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.

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.

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

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.

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.