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Max von Sydow

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

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."

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A.E. Samaan

"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."

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A.E. Samaan

"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."

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A.E. Samaan

"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."

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A.E. Samaan

"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"

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A.E. Samaan

"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."

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A.E. Samaan

"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."

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A.E. Samaan

"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."

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Max von Sydow
"Filming is repetition and many takes."

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Max von Sydow
"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't."

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Max von Sydow
"Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun."

Fun

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Max von Sydow
"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."

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Max von Sydow
"The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal."

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Max von Sydow
"I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more."

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Max von Sydow
"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."

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Max von Sydow
"I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do."

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Max von Sydow
"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."

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

Life

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