“New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, bu...” — Max von Sydow Quote

New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

I understand German; I can read German.

Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears.

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.

I like Portland. It's a cute city. You've got a lot of twirly mustaches and things - I'm into that, the hipsters.