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

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.

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

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.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

The eyes of your understanding must see through to Great Success

100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.