I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
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.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
People think my life has been hard, but I think it’s been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize that it’s not about what happens, but how you deal with it.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
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.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.
Der er kun én succes – at kunne tilbringe dit liv på din egen måde.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
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.