Connie Nielsen

“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.”

“Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.”

“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.”

“You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.”

“You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.”

“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 seriously suck at auditions.”

“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.”

“אני אוהבת ערים שנמצאות על המים. אני אוהבת את אלמנט המים, במיוחד את הים. גדלתי על הים וגדלתי בשייט – אני אוהבת שייט – והנוכחות של הים מעניקה לאוויר ולאור איכות מיוחדת שאני ממש מעריצה.”

“אם קופנהגן הייתה בן אדם, האדם הזה היה נדיב, יפה, קשיש, אבל עם כשרון. בן אדם שיש לו נטיות מסוימות למריבות, מלא בדמיון ובתיאבון לחדש ועם כבוד לישן – מישהו שדואג טוב לדברים ולאנשים.”

“יש לנו חוש הומור מעוות בסקנדינביה, וזה מה שמופיע בבחירות ברבים מהסרטים שלנו.”

“פעולת הכתיבה יכולה להיות סוג של שחרור – וידוי מבצע את אותה פעולה: העמדת חייך הפנימיים על הדף או לידיו של אדם מהימן משחררת מתחים ושופכת אור על מה שנראה לעתים קרובות סמוי עד שנאמר – או נכתב.”

“אני אוהבת לעשות פעלולים. אני מסורה לפעלולים, למעשה. אני באמת מגלה שזה מקרב אותי אפילו יותר לאמת פיזית על הדמות שלי שאני נהנית להיות חלק ממנה. אני אוהבת לעשות את הדברים האלה.”

“ההבדל בגודל סרט של האחים וורנר לעומת ההפקות הקטנות שהייתי בהן באירופה היה עצום. אתה עובר מ־20 אנשים על הסט ל־150.”

“שיחקתי הרבה נשים חזקות בקולנוע, בסרטים הוליוודיים גדולים, ולפעמים היה לי קשה להגיע להסכמה לגבי מה הופך אישה לחזקה.”

“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.”

“I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.”

“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 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.”

“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.”