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" I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and say, 'Oh, you scared me!' I was the good guy in that film! "
Max von Sydow
People
Good
Think
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" We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. "
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Cast
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" Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play. "
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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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" The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. "
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Saint
" Filming is repetition and many takes. "
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Repetition
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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. "
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Control
Fighting
" I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like. "
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Only
Role
" The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person. "
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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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He
Improvise
" France is, for me, the country of happiness. "
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Country
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France
" 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. "
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" 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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Nothing
Drunk
Face
" I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. "
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My Life
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm an actor; I'm not a director. "
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" In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you. "
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" In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. "
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" Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray. "
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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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" Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad. "
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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. "
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Too Much
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