Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Related Quotes:

" In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you. "

" 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. "

" I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money. "

" All of us, we deserve to survive. "

Max von Sydow

Deserve

Survive

" Unfortunately, not all stories end positively. "

" I find it very hard to take myself seriously. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" France is, for me, the country of happiness. "

" Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust. "

Max von Sydow

Throw

Adjust

" It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't. "

" It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?' "

" Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. "

Max von Sydow

People

Time

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Awards are lovely and always welcome. "

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

" If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. "