I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera. — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims. — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it. — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse.… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I was rather often cast as crazy people, maniacs. It was very good for me and it was fun because it is nice to play crazy… — Erland Josephson Copy Share
I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way. — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
