We never played hide and seek when we were children. No one ever bothered to look for us.
Hard work is more important than talent when talent does not want to work hard.
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
We had 99% of the game, it was the last 3% that cost us the victory.
Why do you see the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam in your own eye?
I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.
Keep your heels head and standards high.
I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and clothes, you want something bigger.
One must have a big nose to be able to smell something.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
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.
The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business – live concerts.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.
Lotto is a tax for stupid people. An extra tax.
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.