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

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" It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often. "

" In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. "

" It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. "

" 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. "

" 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 language if you're not brought up with it. "

" Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself. "

" 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. "

" The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. "

" 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 meaningful. "

" The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom. "

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

" 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. "

" Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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!' "

" I owe Mr. Bergman so much. "

" I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history. "

" New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas. "

" When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up. "

" The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person. "

" Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. "

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

" Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys. "

" It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?' "

" There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all. "

" I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. "