Top 53 Quotes About Ingrid Bergman
#1. Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.
John Gielgud
#2. I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
Patrick Macnee
#3. The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
Kenneth Tynan
#4. Be yourself. The world worships and original. ~Ingrid Bergman
Daire St. Denis
#5. (On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."
Humphrey Bogart
#6. It's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes
I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible
Gregory Corso
#7. If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.
Humphrey Bogart
#8. There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.
Cary Grant
#9. [On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.
Ingrid Bergman
#10. 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
#11. There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.
Ingrid Bergman
#12. 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.
Ingrid Bergman
#13. 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.
Ingrid Bergman
#14. In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.
Ingrid Bergman
#15. I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.
Ingrid Bergman
#16. 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.
Ingrid Bergman
#18. There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
Ingrid Bergman
#19. 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
#20. 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.
Ingrid Bergman
#21. On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
Ingrid Bergman
#22. You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Ingrid Bergman
#23. If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
Ingrid Bergman
#24. The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
Ingrid Bergman
#25. 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
#26. It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman
#27. Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman
#29. I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.
Ingrid Bergman
#30. I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman
#31. 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.
Ingrid Bergman
#33. I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman
#35. A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Ingrid Bergman
#36. I do not know how to kiss or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
Ingrid Bergman
#37. Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.
Ingrid Bergman
#38. 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.
Ingrid Bergman
#40. 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
#41. When one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.
Ingrid Bergman
#42. I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
Ingrid Bergman
#43. 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
#44. Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!
Ingrid Bergman
#45. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Ingrid Bergman
#48. Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.
Ingrid Bergman
#49. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
#50. I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.
Ingrid Bergman
#51. A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous
Ingrid Bergman
#52. 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
#53. Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman
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