Ingrid Bergman Quotes (36 Quotes)

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

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.

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

Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal

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

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

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.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul.

Acting is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well, it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.

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.

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.

Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By'.

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

Im no Sexgoddess but I haven't spent my life in a tree ...

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

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

I was not beautiful. When I went to Hollywood the beauties were people like Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Loretta Young. They were incredibly glamorous. I was always the girl next door.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

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

Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.

In Paris, when the picture came out Casablanca they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.

Having a home, husband, and child ought to be enough for any woman's life. I mean, that's what we are meant for, isn't it But still I think every day is a lost day. As if only half of me is alive. The other half is pressed down in a bag and suffocated.

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.

I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.

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

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.

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.

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

Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in. To her daughter Isabella Rossellini, on acting

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.