Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Maximilian Schell

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Maximilian Schell was an Austrian-born Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, his second acting role in Hollywood. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by acting and literature. While he was a child, his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled in Zurich. After World War II ended, Schell took up acting and directing full-time. He appeared in numerous German films, often anti-war, before moving on to Hollywood.

Swiss - Actor | December 8, 1930 - February 1, 2014

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I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

Maximilian Schell

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Maximilian Schell

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Maximilian Schell

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

Maximilian Schell

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Maximilian Schell

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

Maximilian Schell

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

Maximilian Schell

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

As an actor, I was a fantastic rebel. Then I became a directorial rebel and understood rebels from both sides. So now I am a friend who gives advice - not one who knows more, necessarily, but who shares ideas.

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Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

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We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

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To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

Maximilian Schell

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

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Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

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And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

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I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

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The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.

Maximilian Schell

And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

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Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

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My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

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Music in this film is a very important part.

Maximilian Schell

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

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I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

Maximilian Schell

Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Maximilian Schell

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.

Maximilian Schell

Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Maximilian Schell

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