I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
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.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
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.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
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.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
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 don’t hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hate the sexy image, hate the pictures of me on stage, hate the big vulgar person. On stage, I act the whole time I’m there. As soon as I come out of those songs, I’m Tina again.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.