Quotes by Sofia Helin - Page 1

I spend most money on my garden.
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Garden
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When you make a change, it hurts a bit.
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Hurts
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I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.
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Ruled
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I am not a calm, happy person. I am complicated.
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Happy Person
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In Sweden, you're not supposed to think you are someone.
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Sweden
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I try to shop online. All my food, Christmas gifts, everything.
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Gifts
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When you grow up around sadness, it affects the way you see the world.
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Sadness
Affects
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Mystery Road' hadn't been shown in Scandinavia but I read the script and I just had to do it.
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Shown
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When you are young you can be a bit nonchalant - it's cool to be depressed, and maybe a bit dark.
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Depressed
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And then my husband works every second weekend, sermons on Sunday, baptising on Saturdays, weddings.
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Every Second
Sermons
Sunday
Saturdays
Weddings
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To wear brown and grey things every day, the same clothes, for months, it's quite boring after a while.
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Grey
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My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.
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Salesman
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My parents taught me broad Christian values. To be kind to one another, to be honest, not to just think about yourself.
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Be Kind
Honest
Broad
To Be Honest
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Some of the roles I play are very demanding. My body and brain can't separate what is real fear from what is played fear.
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Demanding
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I talked to a brain specialist who told me when you think like someone else for such a long time, your brain actually changes.
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Time Brain Me
Specialist
Such A Long Time
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I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery.
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Bicycle
Broke
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Surgery
Teeth
Bridge
Jaw
Smashed
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In the 70s Sweden was innocent, but we've lost that. Society has become less idealistic and everything is about how much money you have in your wallet.
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Idealistic
Innocent
Sweden
How Much Money
Wallet
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So I sat down in my student room and thought, when did I have a lot of fun? I realised it was acting. I was 22. Then I slowly started to make small steps.
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Realised
Steps
Slowly
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My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it's not so formal. We made our peace with that.
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Peace
Faith
Church
Formal
Husband
Married
Sweden
Priest
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It's a myth that all Scandinavians are happy, healthy, outdoors people. It's often more a matter of class whether you can afford to take time to take care of yourself.
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Myth
Time Yourself Care
Outdoors
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Because if I am someone else for so many months, it affects me, physically, in my brain, in my being. So then I have to take care of that, and make myself more like me again.
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Affects
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It's almost as if the Swedes have two different personalities: one for winter and one for summer. I am both a happy and a melancholic person. It's complex as I get so much from life.
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Winter
Life I Am Person
Different Personalities
Personalities
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I just figured, 'I don't want to go to university anymore,' so I went to Stockholm. I went into this teaching school and after one year I got a part in a soap opera in Stockholm. It's called 'Rederiet.'
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Opera
Soap
Stockholm
School Go University
Figured
Soap Opera
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I was embarrassed this spring when corona came. Everything in life had been so fast and seemed so important and then I realised the kind of stress that I allowed myself to be under, and I was embarrassed.
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Embarrassed
Realised
Spring
Stress
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But watching characters that are awkward, overcoming their own obstacles and finding some of the hardest criminals in the world is interesting. We like watching losers win because we're all basically losers.
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Awkward
Criminals
Interesting
Obstacles
Overcoming
Basically
Losers
Finding
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Then I had lunch with my cousin who works for WaterAid and she said yes, it's a catastrophe. And another catastrophe is that every day 1,400 children die from poisoned water, so now I'm an ambassador for WaterAid.
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Catastrophe
Cousin
Lunch
Ambassador
Poisoned
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I always knew I wanted to have children of my own. I met my husband Daniel when I was 23; we were married when I was pregnant with my first child, Ossian. We've had our ups and downs like every couple, especially when we were younger.
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Pregnant
Daniel
Downs
First Child
Ups
Ups And Downs
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Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother survived the incident, but the loss devastated my parents. I think they went into shock for a couple of years.
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Car Accident
Devastated
Eldest
Shock
Tragedy
Accident
Incident
Struck
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I arrange it by working four days away from home, and three days at home with the family, so I work four long days rather than five shorter. But it's hard because everything is on hold. We have to restore the family life during the weekends.
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Family Life
Life Family Work
Arrange
Restore
Weekends
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In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That made me study other people very much. Then I actually started university and I got quite bored. This is when I found out I wanted to be an actor.
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Bored
Time Childhood Me
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I went on holiday with my kids and I had to make the choice - a good vacation for me, or a good vacation for them. A good vacation for them is to be with other Swedish kids, so I chose that, but I had to say, you have to behave, because I can't have a scene in the restaurant.
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Vacation
Behave
Holiday
Swedish
Chose
Good Me Restaurant
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Acting, when you don't want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don't like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
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Disagree
Orchard
Recognise
Cherry
Contacts
Hoped
Wig
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I like going for walks in the western harbour, a newly-built area of Malmo where the old harbour used to be. It is surrounded by canals and waterways and the architecture is modern and innovative - the landmark Turning Torso skyscraper, designed by Santiago Calatrava, is the star of the show.
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Architecture
Harbour
Skyscraper
Walks
Designed
Landmark
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I had a talk with my older son a couple of days ago. I explained to him that I went to a therapist and I found out that I wanted two things very much: I wanted children and I wanted acting. My therapist said to combine this will be very hard. And being a parent is the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Hardest Thing
Combine
Explained
The Hardest Thing
Therapist
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