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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.'

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

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

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

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

Max von Sydow

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

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

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.

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

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

Max von Sydow

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

Max von Sydow

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

Max von Sydow

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

Max von Sydow

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

Max von Sydow

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

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

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

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

Max von Sydow

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

Between you and me, odd things happen always on set.

Max von Sydow

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

Max von Sydow

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

Max von Sydow

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

Max von Sydow

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.

Max von Sydow

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.

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

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.

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

Filming is repetition and many takes.

Max von Sydow

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

Max von Sydow

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

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?'

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

Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.

Max von Sydow

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

Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

Max von Sydow

Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.

Max von Sydow