Max von Sydow Quotes
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All of us, we deserve to survive.
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I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things.
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It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
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There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
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If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
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When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.
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Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
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Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
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Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
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What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.
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Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.
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In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
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All my life I've been looking for diversity.
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I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
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I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.
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I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money.
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Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'
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It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.
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When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.
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It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.
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Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.
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I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
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Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.