Connie Nielsen Quotes
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
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There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.
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I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.
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I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York.
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I have been a proponent of dramatically expanding the AmeriCorps program. By increasing the pay of participants to a living wage, it can act as a jobs program that, rather than trying to predict what will be technically viable jobs, will value social support and provide jobs that make communities stronger.
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We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
