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" 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
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" Unfortunately, not all stories end positively. "
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End
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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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Inspire
Moments
People
" Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. "
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Great
Imagination
Challenges
" 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. "
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Feel
World
Newspaper
" The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom. "
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Language
Camera
Him
" I owe Mr. Bergman so much. "
Max von Sydow
Owe
Mr
Bergman
" 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. "
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You
Think
Success
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Time
Doubt
Friendship
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Door
Children
Wife
" There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination. "
Max von Sydow
Casting
Some
Much
" 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 could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language. "
Max von Sydow
Learn
Language
Totally
" I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history. "
Max von Sydow
Good
Important
Think
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Human Nature
Interesting
Me
" 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! "
Max von Sydow
People
Good
Think
" The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. "
Max von Sydow
Self
Back
Clock
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Know
Emotions
Play
" Awards are lovely and always welcome. "
Max von Sydow
Welcome
Always
Awards
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Acting
You
See
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Movies
Control
Fighting
" Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not. "
Max von Sydow
Whether
Human
Human Beings
" I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more. "
Max von Sydow
Much
Work
Want
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Relationship
Mother
Teacher
" I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like. "
Max von Sydow
Accept
Only
Role
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
People
Ask
Feeling
" 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
" It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often. "
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Time
Too Much
Difficult
" I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. "
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Never
My Life
Life
" The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. "
Max von Sydow
Act
Sinner
Saint
" 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. "
Max von Sydow
Director
Boring
Work