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

" 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. "

" My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people. "

" Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. "

" I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more. "

" 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 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. "

" Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't. "

" Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad. "

" 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. "

" You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself. "

" When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison. "

" The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. "

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

" 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. "

" All my life I've been looking for diversity. "

" 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! "

" All of us, we deserve to survive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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