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.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
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.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
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.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.