We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.

Making others better is a core value of a great life.

We have all had stupid youths, ' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

I think that success is having fun.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.