Erland Josephson

Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that…

— Erland Josephson

Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

— Erland Josephson

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

— Erland Josephson

I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more…

— Erland Josephson

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique…

— Erland Josephson

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities…

— Erland Josephson

I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art,…

— Erland Josephson

I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a…

— Erland Josephson

I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I…

— Erland Josephson

In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made…

— Erland Josephson