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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment. "

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

" Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun. "

" There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination. "

" When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities. "

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

" It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director. "

" I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. "

" 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 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. "

" Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why. "

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

" I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again. "

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

" My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer. "

" I understand German; I can read German. "