Lena Olin Quotes
Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels.
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If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life.
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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.
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Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there.
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Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
