Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.
It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.
Awards are lovely and always welcome.
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.
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
All my life I've been looking for diversity.
Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.
Filming is repetition and many takes.
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.
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
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.
In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.
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.
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.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.
Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
