No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
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.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all
We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us.
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.
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 can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
I have no vices only desires.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend – without a song.’ So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
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.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
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.
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.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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.