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.

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

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

My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, 'How far are you going and when are you coming back?'

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

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

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 think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

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.

Be compassionate, be kind and, above all, be loving.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.