Max von Sydow Quotes
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Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.
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Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
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I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
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Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.
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Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.
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Awards are lovely and always welcome.
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To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.
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France is, for me, the country of happiness.
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There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
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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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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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In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.
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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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Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.
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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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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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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 would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.
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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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I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.
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I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.
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Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.
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Filming is repetition and many takes.