Ingrid Bergman Quotes

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

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

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

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

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

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 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.

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 what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.

One is never too old for romance.

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

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

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

I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

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

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.

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.