Ingrid Bergman Quotes
"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Time, Victory, Cancer, Challenge, Day)
"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Being)
"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."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Success, Day, Security, Tears)
"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Marriage, Reason)
"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
(Related: Love, Play, Woman, Years)
"It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."
- Ingrid Bergman
"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Acting)
"I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime."
- Ingrid Bergman
"I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!"
- Ingrid Bergman
"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
(Related: Life, People, Worry)
"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Money, Care)
"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
(Related: Life, People, Right, Woman)
"I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?"
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Kiss, Noses)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Happiness, Health, Memory)
"Be yourself. The world worships the original."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: World)
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Nature, Kiss, Speech, Words)
"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
(Related: Life, Acting)
"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: People, Talk, Want)