Vikander: "I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true."

Vikander: "I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing."

Vikander: "We all body shame and compare bodies, and that needs to go out of the window."

Vikander: "I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work."

Vikander: "In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you."

Vikander: "My mum used to tell me when I was a kid that I had to go to bed at 7.30 P.M., and when I'd ask why, she'd say, 'Well, you do get a bit grumpy when you don't have routines'. Then I realised, when I was a bit older, that's actually true."

Vikander: "I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself."

Vikander: "I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them, thinking, 'One day, I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman.'"

Vikander: "That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people."

Vikander: "I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place."

Vikander: "I give a lot to charity when it comes to clothes."

Vikander: "I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change."

Vikander: "Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough."

Vikander: "I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert."

Vikander: "Working makes me happy, makes me calm."

Vikander: "In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is."

Vikander: "I love big popcorn movies."

Vikander: "After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me."

Vikander: "I love when I am outside my comfort zone."