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We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

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

All of us, we deserve to survive.

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

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.

Awards are lovely and always welcome.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

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.

I understand German; I can read German.

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

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

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.

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

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

Between you and me, odd things happen always on set.

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

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

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

The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.

Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.

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

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

I owe Mr. Bergman so much.

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.

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

I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and say, 'Oh, you scared me!' I was the good guy in that film!

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.