Max von Sydow Quotes

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

I'm good at fitting in, and I think I'm fairly perceptive about moods and psychic environments.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

I am vibe oriented and am able to read people right most of the time.

One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.