Max von Sydow Quotes
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests
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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 just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do
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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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I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.
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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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Filming is repetition and many takes
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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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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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Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys
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Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
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The power of Christ compels you!
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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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There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
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I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like
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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'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy
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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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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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A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic
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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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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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Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.
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In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors
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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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Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.
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All my life I've been looking for diversity
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I like to play with things a while before annihilation.
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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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