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

You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster."With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence, " said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

Seek to know your sacred soul.

The more we give, the more we are blessed to keep giving.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

Genius is a rising stock market.