In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?