Max von Sydow Quotes
Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I never left doo wop.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.
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I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.
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Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.
