Quotes by Connie Nielsen - Page 1

I am a political animal.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Political Animal
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I love going to museums.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Museums
Love Going I Love
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I seriously suck at auditions.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Auditions
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I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.
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Chaos
Order
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I drink red wine every night and chamomile tea before bed.
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Every Night
Red Wine
Wine
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True strength lies in openness and working in concert with people and events.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Openness
True Strength
Concert
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I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.
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Denmark
Small Town
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A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.
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Curious
Long
Roles
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I believe eating is a form of medicine, a reasoned way of giving your body and mind what it needs.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Medicine
Your Body
Believe Mind Body
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The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Confessing
Bear
Confronted
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It's the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.
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Discovering
Enamored
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I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.
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People
Tables
Thinking
Discuss
Table
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Humor
Choices
Scandinavia
Sense Of Humor
Warped
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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.
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Kids
Fit
Struggle
Life My Life Things
Compete
Involve
Struggling
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Bros
Enormous
Productions
Versus
Warner Bros
Warner
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Doing social media is a way of not giving in to this inclination to hiding. But instead, I'm teaching myself to feel comfortable about being open.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Hiding
Inclination
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Consensus
Strong Women
Hard Time
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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.
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Artist
Choices
Dare
People
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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.
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Harvey
Invitations
Drinks
Raid
Warned
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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.
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Animal
Character
Character Development
Smart
Writing
Different Animal
Directing
In-Depth
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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.
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Harassment
Participants
Entities
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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.
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Psychological
Burdened
Problems People Who
Dysfunctional
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I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.
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Chaos
Female
Lovers
Mother
Order
Roles
Attracted
Definitely
Limited
Mothers
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Dedicated
Closer
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Book
Extended Family
Trying
Want
Love Time Family
Extended
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Girl
Successful
Thinking
Unjust
Work Movies Me
Discover
Plain
Shown
Snap
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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.
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Asparagus
Carrots
Cauliflower
Orange
Purple
Vegetables
Colors
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Art
Aspire
Fame
Good Work
Trying
Want
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Aspire
Things In Life
Trying
Would Be
Life Family Work
Combine
Otherwise
The Only Thing
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As long as we suspect female actors of being somehow complicit in their own victimization, as willing participants in their own humiliation, we shame the victim and enable the culture of silence that allows predators to act with impunity.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Female
Humiliation
Impunity
Participants
Silence
Victimization
Willing
Complicit
Enable
Predators
Suspect
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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.
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Confession
Inner Life
Release
Trusted
Hidden
Inner
Performs
Sheds
Spoken
Tensions
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Funny
Inspirational
Adore
Cities
Light
Sailing
Sea
Element
Presence
Specifically
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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.
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Daughter
Children
Love You
World
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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.
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Love Time World
By The Time
More Than Anything
Your Child
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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.
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Shadow
Business Model
Disconcerting
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Respect
Imagination
Appetite
Beautiful
Certain
Copenhagen
Elderly
Filled
Generous
People
Somebody
Human Being
Takes
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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.
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Different
Different Things
Excitement
Mean
Wish
Life Happiness God
Answered
Concept
Seemed
Singular
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Breakfast
Coffee
Dose
Milk
Nuts
Oil
Organic Food
Taste
Yogurt
Fat
Content
High
Egg
Fresh
Grape
Organic
Properties
Scrambled
Seed
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Ideas
Pages
Scripts
Sophisticated
Blockbusters
Good Script
Receive
Script
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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.
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Agents
Behave
Fbi
Fbi Agents
Female
Gun
Handle
Los Angeles
Portland
Physically
Angeles
Basic
Conversations
Los
Trained
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Human Needs Project is really about how to come up with a different approach to helping, really focusing on the dignity of people living in communities you are not a part of, and how to approach these communities with help, but more look at it as an investment and a collaboration with these communities rather than, 'Here comes the white savior!'
Connie Nielsen / Film Actress
Approach
Collaboration
Different Approach
Helping
Human Needs
Investment
Savior
Communities
Project
Focusing
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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. What is it that positions her as a force to be reckoned with? And I think it's because there's an expectation from the get-go that she isn't. If you're not starting from a deficit as a point of view, but you're starting from an assumption that says, "Well, this is what women really are," then it's a really freeing experience as an actor and as a woman.
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Hard Times
Strong Women
Thinking
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