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" If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. "

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" Unfortunately, not all stories end positively. "

" I understand German; I can read German. "

" 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. "

" I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. "

" France is, for me, the country of happiness. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then. "

" I owe Mr. Bergman so much. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Awards are lovely and always welcome. "

" I'm an actor; I'm not a director. "

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

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

" No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years. "

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

" In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "