Max von Sydow quotes
-
“Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.”
-- Max von Sydow -
“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”
-- Max von Sydow -
“A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic”
-- Max von Sydow -
“If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
-- Max von Sydow -
-
“In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors”
-- Max von Sydow -
“All my life I've been looking for diversity”
-- Max von Sydow -
“I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like”
-- Max von Sydow -
“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.”
-- Max von Sydow -
-
“The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.”
-- Max von Sydow -
“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.”
-- Max von Sydow -
“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.”
-- Max von Sydow -
“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.”
-- Max von Sydow -
-
“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 -
“I like to play with things a while before annihilation.”
-- Max von SydowSource : "Fictional character: The Emperor Ming". "Flash Gordon", 1980.
-
“The power of Christ compels you!”
-- Max von SydowSource : "Fictional character: Father Merrin , Father Karras". "The Exorcist", www.imdb.com. 1973.
-
“I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy”
-- Max von Sydow -
-
“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 -
“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”
-- Max von Sydow -
“I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor”
-- Max von Sydow -
“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.”
-- Max von Sydow -
-
“Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too”
-- Max von Sydow -
“I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things”
-- Max von Sydow -
“I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do”
-- Max von Sydow -
“In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests”
-- Max von Sydow -
-
“Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys”
-- Max von Sydow
You may also like:
-
Adam Driver
Actor -
Andy Serkis
Film actor -
Anthony Daniels
Actor -
Carrie Fisher
Actress -
Domhnall Gleeson
Actor -
Ellen Burstyn
Actress -
Gwendoline Christie
Model -
Harrison Ford
Film actor -
Ingmar Bergman
Writer -
John Boyega
Film actor -
Linda Blair
Actress -
Liv Ullmann
Actress -
Mark Hamill
Actor -
Oscar Isaac
Actor -
Peter Mayhew
Actor -
Sam J. Jones
Actor -
Thomas Horn
Film actor -
William Friedkin
Film director -
William Peter Blatty
Writer -
Daisy Ridley
Film actress