Max von Sydow quote: "To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating."

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most o...
MAX VON SYDOW

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

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence to...
MAX VON SYDOW

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed '...
MAX VON SYDOW

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
MAX VON SYDOW

The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. When...
MAX VON SYDOW

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was imp...
MAX VON SYDOW

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

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you ...
MAX VON SYDOW

If people ask me, 'For you, what is your most important film?' I have a feeling that they al...
MAX VON SYDOW

I owe Mr. Bergman so much.
MAX VON SYDOW

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

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he...
MAX VON SYDOW

No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in ...
MAX VON SYDOW

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to ...
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 di...
MAX VON SYDOW

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critic...
MAX VON SYDOW

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you...
MAX VON SYDOW

Pelle, the Conqueror.
MAX VON SYDOW

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.
MAX VON SYDOW

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go...
MAX VON SYDOW

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never ...
MAX VON SYDOW

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

Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to ...
MAX VON SYDOW

I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and sa...
MAX VON SYDOW

I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.
MAX VON SYDOW

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man...
MAX VON SYDOW

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

When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act ...
MAX VON SYDOW

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the m...
MAX VON SYDOW

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As s...
MAX VON SYDOW

New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering wh...
MAX VON SYDOW

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the ...
MAX VON SYDOW

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

He made sense to me from the very beginning, ... I felt I knew him. I felt I recognized him somewher...
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

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, fa...
MAX VON LAUE

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like fro...
MAX VON ESSEN

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance...
MAX VON LAUE

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of s...
MAX VON ESSEN

'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately o...
MAX VON ESSEN

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the ex...
MAX VON LAUE

For casual wear, I'm obsessed with Onassis in Soho. Hip-preppy and well priced.
MAX VON ESSEN

I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ...
MAX VON ESSEN

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wa...
MAX VON LAUE

Be a doer, not a stewer.
MAX LUCADO

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo...
MAX EASTMAN

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
MAX EUWE

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
MAX CANNON

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you k...
MAX LUCADO

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
MAX CANNON

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different fr...
MAX HEINDEL

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty an...
MAX SCHNEIDER

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated...
MAX WEINBERG

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us w...
MAX WEBER

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
MAX STIRNER

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of ...
MAX WEBER

I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
MAX STIRNER

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
MAX BEERBOHM

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
MAX BEERBOHM

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
MAX WEBER

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
MAX KAUFFMAN

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources an...
MAX BILL

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel agai...
MAX PERCY

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained th...
MAX HEINDEL

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport ...
MAX WINKLER

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.
MAX CANNON

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right ...
MAX EHRMANN

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He ex...
MAX FRISCH

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
MAX FRISCH

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
MAX STIRNER

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as...
MAX EHRMANN

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps...
MAX WEBER

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
MAX LERNER

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we c...
MAX LERNER

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is ri...
MAX LUCADO

I Choose Love...
No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love....
MAX LUCADO

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's proble...
MAX LUCADO

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAX LUCADO

He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a b...
MAX BARRY

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci...
MAX LERNER

Music is the soul of language.
MAX HEINDEL

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by...
MAX WEBER

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off towa...
MAX EASTMAN

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quit...
MAX WEBER

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
MAX EASTMAN

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
MAX MULLER

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
MAX SCHMELLING

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meanin...
MAX FRISCH

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...
MAX LERNER

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
MAX EASTMAN

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every tim...
MAX MCGEE

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
MAX JACOB

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
MAX BEERBOHM

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
MAX LERNER

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
MAX LERNER

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...
MAX LERNER

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
MAX BEERBOHM

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is l...
MAX BEERBOHM

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
MAX BEERBOHM

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
MAX BEERBOHM

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
MAX BEERBOHM

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
MAX ASNAS

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
MAX BEERBOHM

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial...
MAX BEERBOHM

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than m...
MAX BEERBOHM

Nobody ever died of laughter.
MAX BEERBOHM

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
MAX HASTINGS

If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can a...
MAX GUNTHER

How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a dist...
MAX BEERBOHM

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
MAX EASTMAN

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win a...
MAX GUNTHER

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
MAX BEERBOHM

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
MAX LUCADE

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us cease...
MAX LERNER

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...
MAX STIRNER

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir...
MAX BEERBOHM

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
MAX BEERBOHM

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost ai...
MAX BORN

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
MAX BEERBOHM

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that ...
MAX EASTMAN

Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND

The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Ke...
MAX CLELAND

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all...
MAX BORN

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meani...
MAX FRISCH

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of...
MAX NORDAU

Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why...
TUCKER MAX

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour ou...
MAX LUCADO

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good st...
MAX AZRIA

The '60s were an amazing time.
PETER MAX

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordinati...
MAX WEBER

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused ...
MAX GREENFIELD

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which i...
MAX BURNS

I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Camp...
MAX SCHNEIDER

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alon...
MAX BILL

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very he...
MAX IRONS

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
MAX SCHMELING

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
MAX EASTMAN

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...
MAX PLANCK

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
MAX BEERBOHM

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of...
MAX WEBER

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it ha...
MAX HEINDEL

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for c...
MAX CARVER

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...
MAX LUCADO

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a pe...
TUCKER MAX

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship...
TUCKER MAX

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
TUCKER MAX

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
TUCKER MAX

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress wome...
TUCKER MAX

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like ...
TUCKER MAX

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.
TUCKER MAX

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you...
TUCKER MAX

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I gua...
TUCKER MAX

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You...
TUCKER MAX

If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on t...
TUCKER MAX

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your drea...
TUCKER MAX

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
TUCKER MAX

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around...
TUCKER MAX

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
TUCKER MAX

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
TUCKER MAX

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essentia...
TUCKER MAX

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that...
TUCKER MAX

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.
TUCKER MAX

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
TUCKER MAX

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my exp...
TUCKER MAX

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you a...
TUCKER MAX

The haters always scream the loudest.
TUCKER MAX

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way...
TUCKER MAX

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency dec...
MAX WEBER

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
MAX BECKMANN

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and...
MAX LUCADO

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
MAX NORDAU

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in t...
MAX MULLER

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.
MAX MULLER

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us...
MAX MULLER

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can onl...
MAX MULLER

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown old...
MAX MULLER

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, e...
MAX MULLER

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
MAX MULLER

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, withou...
MAX MULLER

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somew...
MAX MULLER

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to ...
MAX MULLER

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, l...
MAX MULLER

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells...
MAX MULLER

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, w...
MAX MULLER

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

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Max von Sydow

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

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