Quotes from Noomi Rapace

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.