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" 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. "

Max von Sydow

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" 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. "

" Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. "

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Adjust

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

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

" 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. "

" It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. "

Max von Sydow

People

Time

" 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. "

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

" Awards are lovely and always welcome. "

" I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I understand German; I can read German. "

" 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. "

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

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

" All of us, we deserve to survive. "

Max von Sydow

Deserve

Survive

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

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

" 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. "

" It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it. "

Max von Sydow

Important

Love

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

" 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. "