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Max Von Sydow Quotes

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

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.

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.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

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.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things.

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

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.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

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.

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.

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.