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All Quotes by author - Max von Sydow

" All my life I've been looking for diversity. "

" All of us, we deserve to survive. "

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

" Awards are lovely and always welcome. "

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

" Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play. "

" Between you and me, odd things happen always on set. "

" During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!' "

" Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not. "

" Filming is repetition and many takes. "

" Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work. "

" France is, for me, the country of happiness. "

" Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness. "

" Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not. "

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

" I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another. "

" I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor. "

" 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 could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language. "

" 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 don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money. "

" I find it very hard to take myself seriously. "

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

" If people ask me, 'For you, what is your most important film?' I have a feeling that they all sort of want me to answer with one of the Bergman films. But I cannot choose. "

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

" I'm an actor; I'm not a director. "

" 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. "

" In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you. "

" 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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