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" The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. "
Max von Sydow
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" My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer. "
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" I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. "
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" We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then. "
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" The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. "
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" 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. "
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" Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment. "
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" It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. "
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" 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. "
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" In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you. "
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" I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. "
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Swedish
" Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys. "
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American
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" 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! "
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" Awards are lovely and always welcome. "
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" 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. "
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" Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more. "
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" 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. "
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