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

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

" I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I understand German; I can read German. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Unfortunately, not all stories end positively. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Filming is repetition and many takes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language. "