I’m attracted to myths.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
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.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.