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"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
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"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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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"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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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"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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"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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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"Filming is repetition and many takes."
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"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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"Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun."
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"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."
Old

"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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"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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"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."
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"I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do."
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"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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"I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things."
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