117 Quotes by 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 act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

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

Between you and me, odd things happen always on set.

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.