Max von Sydow Quotes
I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I work hard and support myself.
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When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
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You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.
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As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
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Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
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When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.
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He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
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I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.
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I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.
