Lena Olin Quotes

#1. I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

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#2. Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

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#3. There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.

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#4. I consume music the way other people consume movies.

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#5. Acting is a very strange job.

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#6. I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.

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#7. To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

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#8. My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

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#9. I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.

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#10. I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

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#11. Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

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#12. I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

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#13. In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

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#14. By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

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#15. It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

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