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

#bergman #days #felt #films #going

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

#course #english #fantastic #i #i think

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

#get #i #just #many #more

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

— Max von Sydow

#i #just #life #my life #never

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

#contact #control #direct #direct contact #fighting

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#hollywood #me #priests #usually #villains

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

— Max von Sydow

#movie #movie actors #television #theatre #you

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

#english #foreign #foreign language #i #i love

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

#allowed #american #american films #bad #bad guys

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

— Max von Sydow

#know #people #perhaps #scare #why