Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
If you can not join them, beat them.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
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.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The early bird catches the worm. The early worm gets eaten.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
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.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
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 had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
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.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.