Connie Nielsen Quotes

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

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

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. - Connie Nielsen

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

I've actually had a meeting and I've made it clear I would be interested in returning, but I have no idea what's going to happen, if anything. - Connie Nielsen

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves. - Connie Nielsen

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. - 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. - Connie Nielsen

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

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