Max von Sydow movie quotes

“It takes a rare thing, a turning point, to free oneself from any obsession. Be it prejudice or hate, or, even love.”
Max von Sydow - Nels Gudmundsson

“Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one's senses? Why does he hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not? What about those who neither want to nor can believe? Why can't I kill God in me? Why does He live...” (continue)(continue reading)
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block

“Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.”
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.”
Max von Sydow

“I met Death today. We are playing chess.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block

“- Antonius Block: They say you have consorted with the devil?
- Witch: Why do you ask that?
- Antonius Block: It's not out of curiosity, but because of utterly personal reasons. I would also like to meet him.
- Witch: Why?
- Antonius Block: I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block
Maud Hansson - Witch

“Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block

“- Antonius Block: Life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.
- Death: Most people think neither of death nor nothingness.
- Antonius Block: But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block
Bengt Ekerot - Death

“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block

“- Antonius Block: Who are you?
- Death: I am Death.
- Antonius Block: Have you come for me?
- Death: I have long walked by your side.
- Antonius Block: So I have noticed.
- Death: Are you ready?
- Antonius Block: My body is ready, but I am not.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block
Bengt Ekerot - Death

“We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block

“- Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.
- Death: But He remains silent.
- Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.
- Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone.”
Max von Sydow - Antonius Block
Bengt Ekerot - Death

- Maj. Joe De Lucca: The war was made-to-order for you, Martin. You stole from both sides with equal grace.
- Shelley Martin Webber: Listen, which was the greater immorality? My petty crimes, or the war itself?
- Maj. Joe De Lucca: "Petty crimes"? You're lucky you weren't shot!
John Cassavetes - Maj. Joe De Lucca
Max von Sydow - Shelley Martin Webber

“- Doctor Paul Novotny: How did you sleep? Have any dreams?
- Alex Gardner: You mind if take a leak before I give my deposition?”
Max von Sydow - Doctor Paul Novotny
Dennis Quaid - Alex Gardner

“When I started out I was just a peddler moving across the blind face of a distant land. Moving, always moving. Always gone... and in the end I'd always offer weapons. And they'd always take them. Of course I was gone before they realized what they'd purchased.”
Max von Sydow - Leland Gaunt

“I've always enjoyed ladies who take great pride in themselves.”
Max von Sydow - Leland Gaunt

“I've traveled too far and seen too much to ignore the despair in the galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force.”
Max von Sydow - Lor San Tekka

“- Chief Justice Fargo: The blind lady.
- Judge Dredd: Who is she, sir?
- Chief Justice Fargo: Justice before your time. We should never have taken justice out of her hands.”
Max von Sydow - Judge Fargo
Sylvester Stallone - Judge Dredd

“Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you must stop it?”

Max von Sydow - Dr. Naehring

“We have invested heavily in the Middle East and Central America to promote insurgency and revolution. Fortunately, our capital outlay has been handsomely offset by the result and sale of armaments and missiles. You will note that we have supplied both to rebels and government forces, on an equal basis. In matters of death, SPECTRE is strictly...” (continue)(continue reading)
Max von Sydow - Blofeld

“There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.”
Max von Sydow - King Osric

“Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness... if these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless - I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call...” (continue)(continue reading)
Max von Sydow - The Emperor Ming

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

“If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
Max von Sydow