Max von Sydow

Swedish and French actor84 QUOTES

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Max von Sydow was a Swedish and French actor whose career stretched across seven decades in European and American cinema, television, and theatre. He was born in 1929 and died in 2020. He is known for a wide-ranging body of work that made him a familiar presence on screen and stage. He appeared in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages, moving easily between thoughtful leads, sardonic figures, and threatening villains. His work brought him honors from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, and he was nominated for Academy Awards for Pelle the Conqueror and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

“To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.”

ACTING NATURE

“Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.”

REFLECTIONS

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

REFLECTIONS

“Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.”

FILM