Max von Sydow Quotes

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.

I believe acting and teaching are not so far apart. As a teacher, you educate. And films educate, too, but they do it in a massive way.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.