Max von Sydow Quotes

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.

Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.

I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

I'd worked with Sam Barnett before in 'The History Boys' and he's a dear friend of mine.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.

My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.

I think my favorite role was playing Sarah Baker in 'Cheaper by the Dozen 1.' It was my first movie, and I worked with amazing professionals who had such strong work ethics that I immediately learned how to work in this industry.

I love working with great actors.

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.