Max von Sydow Quotes

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

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• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

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• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

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• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  

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• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

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• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

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• I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

  

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• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

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• My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

  

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• I've always considered myself a character actor.

  

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• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

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• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

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• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

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• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

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• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  

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• From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

  

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• Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

  

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• A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.

  

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• So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

  

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• I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

  

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• I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

  

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• I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

  

  Max von Sydow
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  • Success