I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her.

I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.