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" I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. "
Max von Sydow
Old
Still
Some
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" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Acting
You
See
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Director
Boring
Work
" It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director. "
Max von Sydow
Watch
Only
Great
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Nothing
Drunk
Face
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
People
Ask
Feeling
" All of us, we deserve to survive. "
Max von Sydow
Deserve
Survive
Us
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Fun
Money
Interesting
" I find it very hard to take myself seriously. "
Max von Sydow
Take
Find
Hard
" Between you and me, odd things happen always on set. "
Max von Sydow
Things Happen
Always
Happen
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Me
Time
America
" Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself. "
Max von Sydow
You
Remember
Location
" What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before. "
Max von Sydow
Inspire
Moments
People
" Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. "
Max von Sydow
Great
Imagination
Challenges
" I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years. "
Max von Sydow
Mad
Now
Sometimes
" Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play. "
Max von Sydow
Courageous
Things
Expect
" If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. "
Max von Sydow
Name
Stop
Back
" I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language. "
Max von Sydow
Learn
Language
Totally
" In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. "
Max von Sydow
Priests
Cast
Hollywood
" France is, for me, the country of happiness. "
Max von Sydow
Country
Happiness
France
" Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence. "
Max von Sydow
Working
Silence
Man
" 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!' "
Max von Sydow
Service
Military
Change
" I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. "
Max von Sydow
King
Would
Swedish
" Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys. "
Max von Sydow
People
American
Bad
" The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person. "
Max von Sydow
Must
Been
Person
" The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark. "
Max von Sydow
Door
Children
Wife
" Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray. "
Max von Sydow
Friends
You
Sometimes
" Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.' "
Max von Sydow
Special
You
Watch
" Awards are lovely and always welcome. "
Max von Sydow
Welcome
Always
Awards
" I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like. "
Max von Sydow
Accept
Only
Role
" There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination. "
Max von Sydow
Casting
Some
Much