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" We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then. "
Max von Sydow
Look
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" I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. "
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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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" I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do. "
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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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" 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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" In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. "
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" I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds. "
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" The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things. "
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" I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language. "
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" 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. "
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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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