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

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"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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