What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

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

Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.

Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.