52 Quotes by Connie Nielsen

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.

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.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

I say no to a lot of things that just don’t fit my life. I involve my kids in what I’m struggling with so they don’t compete with it.