Max von Sydow Quotes
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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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.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'
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I've been told I smell good. I don't look like I smell good.
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Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
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I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
