Michael Nyqvist

If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they're like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity…

— Michael Nyqvist

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book…

— Michael Nyqvist

Now I have a very good life and I am very proud of my work.

— Michael Nyqvist

I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept…

— Michael Nyqvist

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the…

— Michael Nyqvist

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on…

— Michael Nyqvist

Sweden is a great country. What is not so great is that we have a society that, in a way, says it's…

— Michael Nyqvist

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

— Michael Nyqvist

My early films were very European based. It was 'As It Is In Heaven,' 'Together,' they were great international successes, but then…

— Michael Nyqvist

Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I…

— Michael Nyqvist

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want…

— Michael Nyqvist

I think the power of Stieg Larsson's stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side…

— Michael Nyqvist