Max von Sydow Quotes
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In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
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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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Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.
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There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
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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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I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.
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I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.
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Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.
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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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In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
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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.
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France is, for me, the country of happiness.
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
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I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
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New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.
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The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
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Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.
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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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The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
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Filming is repetition and many takes.
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In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.
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The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.
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I owe Mr. Bergman so much.
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It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.