Max von Sydow Quotes

I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Patience

• Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Great
  • Why
  • Change

• I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Sit

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Children
  • Daily

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Birth
  • Union
  • African

• I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Hate
  • Term
  • Philanthropist

• I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Best
  • Depression

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Control
  • Drug
  • Research

• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Think
  • See

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.

  

  Victor Hugo

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

  

  Jools Holland
  • Hand
  • King

• Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

  

  Little Richard
  • May
  • Rock
  • King

• I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • Period

• All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • King