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Max von Sydow

"I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor."

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Donna Grant

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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Donna Grant

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."

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Donna Grant

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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Donna Grant

"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."

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Donna Grant

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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Donna Grant

"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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Donna Grant

"Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?"

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Donna Grant

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."

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Max von Sydow
"The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark."

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Max von Sydow
"Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys."

People

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Max von Sydow
"The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner."

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

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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 don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds."

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Max von Sydow
"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."

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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
"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."

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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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