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" I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like. "
Max von Sydow
Accept
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" I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. "
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" I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history. "
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" France is, for me, the country of happiness. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I understand German; I can read German. "
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" Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun. "
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" 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. "
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" 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?' "
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" The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more. "
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" I owe Mr. Bergman so much. "
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Bergman
" 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. "
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" We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then. "
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" 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!' "
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" I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. "
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" 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. "
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" To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating. "
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