Bjork (Actor)

"Dancer in the Dark" co-star Catherine Deneuve on Bjork's diffuiculties with the film: "She cannot really act, she can only feel. Some of the situations in the film are so hard, and she was in so much pain, she could not recover from one day to another." --London's Evening Standard, May 23, 2000.

"I always think about music because it's part of me, I am a song-writer first and foremost. You have to give it a lot. Every song is dif- ferent. I would die for a song, of course I would. It is the most important thing. I'm a down-to-earth person obsessed with music." --Bjork to London's The Daily Telegraph, February 11, 2002.

"She is extremely clever. It's like the Cold War. We both have spies everywhere, reporting back all the other's insults. What worries is me is knowing that Bjork would be a tiny bit quicker to press the nuclear button than I would." --director Lars von Trier about his relationship with Bjork, quoted in The Daily Telegraph, August 29, 2000.

Bjork on autographs, one of the many trappings of pop stardom: "I come from a punk background where we're so hard, people would ask us for autographs and we would grab their jumpers and go, 'Get a life!'. We believed in the whole thing about anarchy and everybody is equal, the rule of the majority and how on earth are you supposed to change one person's life when somebody else scribbles their name on a paper card? But I have never been particularly fond of being in that position and I try to discourage it. Because playing music is different, when you're on stage with 1,000 people there--you are just as much into doing what you are doing as they are--you just happened to have that job, and you sort of transfer it, or whatever." --quoted to Rolling Stone.com, January 23, 1999.

She received France's National Order of Merit in August 2001.