Max von Sydow Quotes

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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…
• Filming is repetition and many takes
• 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…
• 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,…
• Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys
• In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests
• I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do
• I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things
• 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…
• A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic
• I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor
• All my life I've been looking for diversity
• 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'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy
• The power of Christ compels you!
• I like to play with things a while before annihilation.
• 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 remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt…

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