Swedish Quotes

"I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don`t have borders."

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

As a feature film director you got to be a guarding dog of the whole production. You got to be able to hold 100 script pages in the head at the same time. If you miss a detail it`s wasted. I don`t know how the music video generation can affect the movie business, but I`m curious what feature films the English Chris Cunningham and the Swedish guy Jonas Åkerlund are going to make.

(June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Lars Göran Persson, unaware that a live TV camera was running) It`s amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.

I am happy I was born Swedish because this means having a tough education -- at least it was in my time. But I couldn`t live there, even when I was in my 20s. Sweden is too far from the rest of the world psychologically. There you feel confined on an island.

I spent five years in England, I went over there with my mother in the show South Pacific and I just love it. I go back there three or four times a year. I joined the American airforce because the Korean war was going on at one time and I got my call up papers and I was supposed to report back to the United States and get my ass shot off in Korea which I didn`t think was a smart idea and not only that I couldn`t understand what the war was all about, I guess a lot of people could at that time but I still can`t even more than I can the Vietnam war, so anyhow I enlisted in the American airforce and I was stationed in London for four years which was pretty good because I never gave up my civilian apartment in St Johns Wood. I got married, met a Swedish girl there, we`ve been married 46 years now.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

What`s most interesting and most real to me in my work is to never make the role a complete character, because then you lose a part of the truth. I can`t say that this person is just like this or like that. Because you can never do that with real people in real life, so if you try that on stage you lose the truth. Since I myself strive to be able to be a great many things, I also want my character to have that very same liberty. Eventually in that way it will add to a sort of completeness. But it is the story that is told that is the interesting thing and the situations the character is in. And as we humans always are shaped by a special situation or given circumstances, I can never ever say: Thus is my character. (on her acting work, Swedish interview, 1990)

Many persons believe that an actor must identify himself with his role. I do not do that, although I do become involved with my parts while I play them. But I find it a virtue to do things which are not of myself. This is the Swedish concept of an actor.

Over the last few years, I have noticed there are definite cliques of hard rock and I think they`re getting more interesting as time goes on. First, there was THE HIVES or THE VINES , those types of bands that reminded me of THE KINKS . Real stripped down, not out of control. Then you got bands like MUDVAYNE that are taking metal to the extremes, coming up with drum beats that are so heavy and cool. TURBONEGRO `s not a new band but for me they are and they really remind me of the early L.A. GUNS , just a lot of high-energy rock `n` roll. Actually, I like a lot of bands that come from that part of the world. REFUSED , they`re a Swedish band and they`re really extreme. I wish it was more commercial. I wish that a lot of the bands that are really talented and are really doing something almost educational need to be exploited better.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960`s and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

He was ethnically very much a product of his Swedish and Irish grandparents, who raised him while his mother worked.

Alexander is a current Swedish international who is looking to go to the World Cup finals.

She threw it out from the corner to the high slot, and I just sort of made a little fake and went top shelf over the Swedish goalie. It was a decent goal, a nice goal. Sometimes you get them on garbage goals, but this was kind of a fun one.

We knew this day was coming at some point. Lots of good will come out of another team getting to the final. It`s great for Swedish hockey, and it shows we`re not a two-team sport.