Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.

- Erland Josephson

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movement…

- Erland Josephson

I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions …

- Erland Josephson

I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the camera is a co-operative li…

- Erland Josephson

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

- Erland Josephson

In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in I…

- Erland Josephson

I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - ther…

- Erland Josephson

I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start wri…

- Erland Josephson

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to reh…

- Erland Josephson