Max von Sydow Quotes

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

Max von Sydow

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Time
  • Know
  • New

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Dead

• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Pretty
  • Hell
  • Divided

• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Way
  • Best

• I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Father

• After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Simple
  • Loss
  • Losing

• Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Things
  • Seen
  • Some

• I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • World
  • Hate

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
  • Lucky
  • Feet

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Vacation

• It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • Value
  • Chances

• Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Age
  • City
  • Brain

• I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Friends