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" 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. "

Max von Sydow

Feel

World

Newspaper

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People

Time

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all. "

" Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too. "

Max von Sydow

Time

America

" Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work. "

" There are many documentary filmmakers who have a tough time because they don't really get what they need to do what they want. There are so many people with good visions that should be encouraged and helped. And they will deliver, I'm sure. "

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

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

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

" I understand German; I can read German. "

" Between you and me, odd things happen always on set. "

" I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring. "

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

Max von Sydow

Actor

Director