Famous quotes by Max von Sydow:
"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
"Pelle, the Conqueror."
"He made sense to me from the very beginning, ... I felt I knew him. I felt I recognized him somewhere."
"There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to."
"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
"The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner."
"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."
"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."
"Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel."
"In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors."
"I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor."
"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."
"I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things."
"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."
"I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do."
"I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like."
"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."