Australia Quote by Jenny Hval

If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian. Particularly, Danish. We spoke English at home.

— Prince Philip

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for…

— Per Petterson

All Scandinavians feel a tiny bit self conscious, of which I'm one.

— Mike Leach

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

— Jo Nesbo

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother…

— Siri Hustvedt

I think sometimes, especially when people were first getting introduced to me, they heard my accent and immediately thought, There's no way this girl…

— Lainey Wilson

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

— Diego Maradona

I'm Norwegian and I'm proud of it.

— Erling Haaland

And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'

— Celeste Holm

I am very proud to be Norwegian.

— Renee Zellweger