Olin Quotes

#1. I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

Lasse Hallstrom

#2. You should not forget that without all the work in law and economics, a great part of which has been supported by the John M. Olin Foundation, it is doubtful whether the importance of my work would have been recognized.

Ronald Coase

#3. I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

Lasse Hallstrom

#4. If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

Olin Miller

#5. Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can't. Because we don't really believe we can die.

Deb Olin Unferth

#6. The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

Wilbur Olin Atwater

#7. Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Olin Miller

#8. Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not.

Erik Olin Wright

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

Lena Olin

#10. 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.

Lena Olin

#11. 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.

Lena Olin

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

Lena Olin

#13. It takes bravery to care for someone - no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

Deb Olin Unferth

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

Lena Olin

#15. It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

Wilbur Olin Atwater

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

Lena Olin

#17. 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?'

Lena Olin

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

Lena Olin

#19. A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

Olin Miller

#20. It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Olin Miller

#21. One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

Olin Miller

#22. 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.

Lena Olin

#23. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

Olin Miller

#24. We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Olin Miller

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

Lena Olin

#26. . . . take cover North America, I am attracted to someone.

Jeni Olin

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

Lena Olin

#28. I gave them my best Obi-Wan Kanobi, a heavy, calm confidence, willing them towards the conclusion that we didn't have any droids on us.

Sean Olin

#29. Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Olin Miller

#30. Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant.

Deb Olin Unferth

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

Lena Olin

#32. What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Olin Miller

#33. Acting is a very strange job.

Lena Olin

#34. If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

Olin Miller

#35. If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Olin Miller

#36. 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.

Lena Olin

#37. 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.'

Lena Olin