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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.'

From Lena Olin

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.

From Lena Olin

It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

From Lena Olin

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.

From Lena Olin

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.

From Lena Olin

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.

From Lena Olin

Acting is a very strange job.

From Lena Olin

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?'

From Lena Olin

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

From Lena Olin

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

From Lena Olin

Lena Olin

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