Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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!' "

" Filming is repetition and many takes. "

" I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do. "

" 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 accept a role only if it's something I really, really like. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I understand German; I can read German. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "