Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person. "
Max von Sydow
Must
Been
Person
Related Quotes:
" There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination. "
Max von Sydow
Casting
Some
Much
" In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. "
Max von Sydow
Television
Theatre
Movie
" I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. "
Max von Sydow
King
Would
Swedish
" In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you. "
Max von Sydow
Film
Silent
You
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Think
Man
Imagination
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Need
Tough
People
" Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. "
Max von Sydow
Throw
Adjust
Up
" I understand German; I can read German. "
Max von Sydow
German
I Can
Read
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Want
Believe
Children
" Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not. "
Max von Sydow
Whether
Human
Human Beings
" I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. "
Max von Sydow
Old
Still
Some
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Working
Silence
Man
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Nothing
Drunk
Face
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Think
Yourself
Good
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Mad
Now
Sometimes
" The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. "
Max von Sydow
Offers
Very
Uncles
" I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. "
Max von Sydow
Tongue
Language
Mother
" All my life I've been looking for diversity. "
Max von Sydow
Been
Diversity
Life
" Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself. "
Max von Sydow
You
Remember
Location
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
War
Become
Start
" I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do. "
Max von Sydow
Too Much
Work
Things
" Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys. "
Max von Sydow
People
American
Bad
" Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad. "
Max von Sydow
Bad
Boring
Some
" It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. "
Max von Sydow
Me
People
Time
" 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
" Filming is repetition and many takes. "
Max von Sydow
Filming
Repetition
Takes
" It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director. "
Max von Sydow
Watch
Only
Great
" Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again. "
Max von Sydow
Father
Life
Me
" I'm an actor; I'm not a director. "
Max von Sydow
Actor
Director
" 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!' "
Max von Sydow
Service
Military
Change