Max von Sydow Quotes

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.

Max von Sydow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: April 10, 1929

Topics

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I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

Jessica Pare

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Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.

Jeffrey Toobin

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More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.

Melissa Leo

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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

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I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential.

John Landgraf

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I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

Robert Gottlieb

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It's no longer possible to think of the physical and digital as two different worlds.

Angela Ahrendts

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Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals.

John Waters

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I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

Rod Taylor

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It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lukas Haas

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My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Jared Leto

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That's like one of the things - you know, being a writer, it's not just like they're constantly like giving you jobs and shows. There was some lean years, man, and - well, a lean year and a half. 'Woe is me.' Right?

Diane Ruggiero

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