Max Von Sydow Quotes

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

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

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

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

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

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

The power of Christ compels you!

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

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.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

All my life I've been looking for diversity

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

Filming is repetition and many takes

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

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.

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

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

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

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

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.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'