Lena Olin Professions : Film actress Born : March 22, 1955 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by Lena Olin My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well. Lena Olin wells favorites-things my-favorite Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why. Lena Olin smell falling-in-love love-you To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.' Lena Olin idiot smart actors I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed. Lena Olin problem done people Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself. Lena Olin trying character interesting Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy. Lena Olin strategy roles way I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do. Lena Olin sensual special men I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to. Lena Olin want exercise way I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend. Lena Olin soul use feelings It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about. Lena Olin bath bubble important life It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away. Lena Olin good me love life Acting is a very strange job. Lena Olin very job strange acting There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America. Lena Olin lot get things america By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?' Lena Olin talk like time remember I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that. Lena Olin climb mountain tree joy In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else. Lena Olin every-day walk day you I consume music the way other people consume movies. Lena Olin movies music people way Similar Authors Isabella Rossellini film-actress Izabella Scorupco film-actress Betty Buckley film-actress Bipasha Basu film-actress Butterfly McQueen film-actress Bryce Dallas Howard film-actress All Authors
