You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
Der er kun én succes – at kunne tilbringe dit liv på din egen måde.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
If they want to be with sour and awkward people during their vacation, well, then they should probably choose another travel agency.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
I’ve never tried that before, so I can probably do it well!