Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

Even in Los Angeles, I stop the car and walk. People look at me and think I am lost or something, they stop and ask if they can help me.

The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.

One of my life's watchwords is 'hyggelig.' It's an untranslatable Danish term for getting together with friends and family and sitting around in a cosy atmosphere with nice food and wine and candles.

I really enjoyed my time in Cleveland.

On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.

I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical person I'd have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with.

I'm actually called Bang, a quite common name in Denmark where I'm from, so it's not like me trying to come up with a very stupid name for people to remember me or something.

I dare somebody to go to Atlanta and not have a good time.

We would go in there with our parents once in a while for - actually go into Manhattan for dinner, weekends occasionally to a museum, but most of my memories of traveling into Manhattan was with the school trips and then later on as we got, you know, into high school, kind of on our own and with friends.

When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.

When I traveled professionally in Europe, I would inevitably spend a weekend at the Hotel Costes around the corner from the Place Vendome in Paris.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

We've been to New York twice, and I quite like it a lot.

I saw an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. The story is just legendary for us Danes, and it was really well done.

I'll just walk around New York and watch people on the streets.

London is a beautiful city with many places of interest, but I am a player and it is not easy to fit in too much tourism.

When I was eight or nine, I came to London for the day from Swindon and went to The National Gallery. I remember standing in Trafalgar Square with my best friend Tim, who was covered in pigeons because I put bird seed on his head.

So it's rare if I go to a city and don't shop. I know different store systems in every city so I just like doing business everywhere I go.

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.

As a kid I had gone to New York a handful of times with my family. I definitely think it planted a seed in me.

Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are correct. That is the chief enemy of creativity.

Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed.

I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.

I just didn't want people to think, Here's this idiot Danish actor who made up this name to get attention. It's really quite common here, and I've had it all my life.