Top 30 Connie Nielsen Quotes

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

If you asked somebody, ‘what do you wish for in life?’ they wouldn’t say ‘happiness.’ I would have answered ‘excitement, knowledge,’ God knows – I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not ‘happiness’. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That’s what I want from my art, that’s what I aspire to.

I don’t think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn’t discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

The act of writing can be a form of release – a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken – or written.

I’ve played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I’ve sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.

It’s disconcerting that there’s been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there’s an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

I believe eating is a form of medicine, a reasoned way of giving your body and mind what it needs.

I drink red wine every night and chamomile tea before bed.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you’re an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don’t dare to say.

I’m a pretty emotional gal.

I always look for stories that really try to tell the world that I see, a world that values and is full, in fact, of stories that are important.

I say no to a lot of things that just don’t fit my life. I involve my kids in what I’m struggling with so they don’t compete with it.

I try to combine my work with my family, that’s what I aspire to. I don’t say that’s the only thing. It’s not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

For dinner, I have at least four or five different vegetables of all colors: purple, orange, green and red. I eat as many colors as possible, including carrots, broccolini, asparagus, cauliflower, kale and more.

Our industry is made up of so many separate entities and participants, it seems we might benefit from creating a harassment ombudsman in each union, or one for the whole industry.

The size difference on a Warner Bros. film versus the small productions I had been on in Europe was enormous. You go from 20 people on set to 150.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

For breakfast, I eat organic food with high fat content, such as whole milk yogurt, nuts, seeds, fresh fruit and a scrambled egg. I cook it in organic grape seed oil for its high omega content. I drink a cappuccino for its dose of milk and the coffee for its taste, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

I love doing stunts. I’m dedicated to stunts, in fact. I really find that that brings me even closer to a physical truth about my character that I enjoy being a part of. I love doing that stuff.

I seriously suck at auditions.

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

I don’t think people who are already burdened with social, economic, psychological situations, dysfunctional families, need to be burdened with other people with the same problems.

I love going to museums.

It’s the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing – I love sailing – and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

I worked on the Harvey Weinstein-produced ‘The Great Raid,’ where I warned a young co-star not to take Harvey up on his invitations to drinks unless the whole group was there.

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are – you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.