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Quotes By Lena
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"I've always made a point to do things that people wouldn't expect me to do
because I think there is danger in becoming the big actress, the star, because then you have things to protect, and there's no way you can work as an actor protecting
things."
 - Harper's Bazaar, 03.93
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About her home - "We built a house in Sweden and we spend the summers there.
We go swimming and play a lot of golf - it's like paradise."
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On husband Lasse Hallstrom's directing - "When I visited the set of The Cider House Rules it was like watching him in the kitchen in the morning. There was no pretension, like, "OK, now I'm directing, honey." He was totally himself with the other actors. Now when I've got the chance to work with him, it was just magic, because there's something about his way of giving the world and the air, and you're totally free and you do it just for fun-any impulse is permitted and fine."
- Amazon.com, 2000
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On the idea of having her own "Alias" action figure - "I like that. There weren't many [of them] for the Bergman stuff. He didn't do many action sequences."
- Entertainment Weekly, 06.14.02
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Quotes About Lena
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"Wonderful. Lena's perfect for the role, because it needed a tough woman who gives the impression of being both hard and sensitive. Lena's a woman who is equal to the men, she won't let herself be held down. She's confident in herself, and she's raising her children to become equal. Lena's a good role model for girls!"
- Jennifer Garner, on being asked what Lena is like as a person, Plaza-Kvinna, April 2005
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"I've been a fan of Lena's for a long itme. I think the first time I saw her was in 'Unbearable Lightness of Being'. Lena was an addition that was an absolute delight. It was interesting doing scenes with her because you'll forget your lines sometimes. She's got this gaze - she's hot"
- Official Alias Magazine, (thanks to Em for this quote.)
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Amy Irving on which actress might make her jealous if her husband Bruno Barreto directed her?
"Lena Olin," Irving said without hesitation. "He's got the hots for Lena Olin.
"But so do I! I think if I were a lesbian, that would be the woman I would go for."
- NY Daily News, 04.16.00
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"In terms of sexiness, Lena wipes most of these women away who are so-called "sexy." You can't define it, but it's just there."
- Gabriel Byrne, Movieline Magazine, 05.98
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"We were looking all around the world for someone who could play Sabina, but I knew I'd found her when I saw Lena Olin walking across a hotel lobby. There was beauty and confidence in her walk; talking to her, you realized how smart she is, and how funny. The Swedish actors are highly professional in the way the British actors are, but she also
had that emotional power that made her exciting to work with."
- director Philip Kaufman, NY Times, 09.29.02
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"Watching Lena's acting choices gave a new facet to our relationship. She was unable to make a false move."
- director & husband, Lasse Hallstrom, WWD, 01.02.01
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"You know what kills me? I have these huge hands. Huge. And whenever we need a hand double to do an insert or something, we can never find somebody with hands that look
like mine. Lena's hands look like mine. So, I'm always obsessed with watching her hands, and I always think, Are my hands that big?!"
- Jennifer Garner, "Alias Behind the Scenes" at ATA&S, 10.02
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"But my favorite person at the event ("Alias Behind the Scenes" at The Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences) was Lena Olin. It wasn't that she had that much too say, but I could not believe how gorgeous she was. Yes, she's gorgeous on the screen, but multiply that by about a billion and you'll have some idea of how gorgeous she is in person."
- Hercules, from Ain't It Cool News, 10.02
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"Lena Olin is just incredible. You always hear about how tight the cast is so you can
imagine what it would be like for someone to come into that family, and she just immersed herself fully. She's such an asset, not just for the story, but on set. She's as goofy and as funny and as sexy as Jennifer. I sometimes go to work early to see if I can catch her in the makeup trailer, and then pretend that I thought my call time was earlier. "Hey, oh wow, are you working now?"
- Bradley Cooper, E! Online's Chat with Wanda, 10.12.02
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"She sort of fell right in with the cast. I adore her, and I think she's great. We're lucky. I haven't worked with Lena yet, but she's blowing me away. Soon, she and I are going to be working together, and I'm excited."
- David Anders, E! Online's Chat with Wanda, 12.02
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Quotes from Lena's Movies
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"Two children? What's the point of that? You wouldn't bake just two cookies, would you?"
"Marrying my husband was no mistake. I had my reason for marrying him. Oh, yes. There was a reason. Only I can't remember what it is."
"I'm a queen!"
"There's only one thing on that boy's body that's upstanding!"
Jadzia: "What does that gypsy know?"
Sofie: "I'm Syrian."
Jadzia: "Same difference."
Roman: "I'm taking about France, my queen. Don't you want to see the Eiffel Tower? Stroll along the Champs Elysees?"
Jadzia: "Is it so much better than Detroit?"
Son: "Mama, aren't you going to make a confession too?"
Jadzia: "We haven't got all year."
- Polish Wedding
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"There's one problem. He doesn't like my hat."
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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"Who says I can't use a skillet."
"Tell him to repent on somebody else's head."
- Chocolat
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Jack: "So you're the big hoodlum. Personally, I don't see it."
Mona: "Keep lookin'."
"He loves those toes, doesn't he?"
"What did I die of?"
"I don't want you to kill him. I just want you to bury him. If he happens to die in the process, that's his problem."
"With or without?" (in the "disarming" sex scene)
You can dig one grave or you can dig two."
- Romeo is Bleeding
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"That was a gift and all you get from me is one."
"I know this woman. I know her charms. I know her tricks. The way she presents herself, she disarms you. Some people have that talent. Compared to all of them, Irina Derevko is extraordinary." - Jack on Irina
"Truth takes time."
"My love for you, for your father, was not a contrivance."
- Alias
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