117 Quotes by Max von Sydow

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

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

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.

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.

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

I owe Mr. Bergman so much.

Awards are lovely and always welcome.

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.