Max von Sydow quotes
- From the movie: Flash Gordon
“- Klytus: Should we stop the torture?
- The Emperor Ming: No.
- Princess Aura: Father! Damn you, Father!” - From the movie: Dreamscape
- From the movie: What Dreams May Come
“You were expecting physical danger? What could it do, kill you? No, in hell there's real danger of losing your mind.”
- From the movie: Needful Things
“There are days I really hate this job. This is not my best work, not by a long shot. Oh, sure, a few murders and a couple of rather lovely explosions. I would hardly call it a rousing success, but what the hell? I'll be back.”
- From the movie: Flash Gordon
“- Dr. Hans Zarkov: We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?
- The Emperor Ming: Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.” - From the movie: Needful Things
“Don't be afraid of it, Hugh. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.”
- From the movie: Judge Dredd
“- Judge Griffin: Chief Justice, this city is in chaos! For social order we need tighter reigns! Incarceration hasn't worked as a deterrent, I say we expand execution to include lesser crimes!
- Chief Justice Fargo: My fellow judges, I was barely in my teens when I put on this badge. When the time comes for me to take it off, please let me do so...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Snow Falling on Cedars
“- Judge Fielding: That's quite enough horseplay, Nels. Try and act your age.
- Nels Gudmundsson: I think if I did that, Your Honor, I'd be dead.” - From the movie: Judge Dredd
“- Judge Dredd: You put order to chaos, sir.
- Chief Justice Fargo: Yes, we solved many problems, but created many more.” - From the movie: Minority Report
- From the movie: Snow Falling on Cedars
“Accident rules every corner of the universe... except perhaps the chambers of the human heart.”
- From the movie: Victory
“- Lang - The Germans: Will we win?
- Major Karl Von Steiner - The Germans: We should. We are very strong, but... players can get injured. The referee can make mistakes.
- Lang - The Germans: This referee is very good. He will make no mistakes.
- Major Karl Von Steiner - The Germans: We can't do that. I have given my word.
- Lang - The Germans:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Flash Gordon
“- The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?
- Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... Earth.” - From the movie: Flash Gordon
- From the movie: Dreamscape
- From the movie: Never Say Never Again
“A terrible catastrophe now confronts you. However, it can be avoided by paying a tribute to our organization, amounting to twenty-five percent of your respective countries' annual oil purchases. We have accomplished two of the functions that the name SPECTRE embodies: terror and extortion. If our demands are not met within seven days, we shall...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Hannah and Her Sisters
- From the movie: Victory
“- Capt. John Colby - The Players: England: The whole bloody war's a regrettable mistake.
- Major Karl Von Steiner - The Germans: I agree.” - From the movie: Minority Report
“Revolvers, like this one, were given to the generals at the end of the civil war by their troops. The chambers were loaded with 5 gold plated bullets to symbolize the end of the destruction and death that set the country apart for 5 years.”
- From the movie: Flash Gordon
“- Princess Aura: Look! Water is leaking from her eyes.
- The Emperor Ming: It's what they call tears, it's a sign of their weakness.” - From the movie: Flash Gordon
“- Zogi, the High Priest: Do you, Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe, take this Earthling Dale Arden, to be your Empress of the Hour?
- The Emperor Ming: Of the hour, yes.
- Zogi, the High Priest: Do you promise to use her as you will?
- The Emperor Ming: Certainly!
- Zogi, the High Priest: Not to blast her into space?
- Zogi, the High...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Needful Things
“- Danforth Keeton III: I just killed my wife. Is that bad?
- Leland Gaunt: Hey, these things happen.” - From the movie: Dune
“Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world.”
- From the movie: Flash Gordon
“- The Emperor Ming: Klytus! What is he doing?
- Klytus: I don't know, sir! It looks like some kind of barbaric sport!”
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