Quotes by Ingrid Bergman

About Ingrid Bergman:

Ingrid Bergman is ranked as the Fourth greatest female star, out of 25, of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant.
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

Ingrid Bergman

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Ingrid Bergman

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

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Be yourself. The world worships the original.

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If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

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There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

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I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

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I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me wh...

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You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

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Author Bio

  • NameIngrid Bergman
  • Descriptionfilm actress from Sweden
  • BornAugust 29, 1915
  • DiedAugust 29, 1982
  • CountrySweden
  • ProfessionActor; Autobiographer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress; Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress