A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.

In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.

My parents got married when I was 12.

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.

Moving in is almost a bigger step than getting married.

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

I'm a crybaby.

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.