Ingrid Bergman Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

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.

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

I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.

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

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

I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

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

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

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

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.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

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.

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.

The theater was my mother and my father.

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.