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

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.

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.

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.