Quotes from Max von Sydow

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

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

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

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