Ingrid Bergman Quotes

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.

#Swedish Actress #Cancer

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

#Desire #Swedish Actress

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

#Swedish Actress #Cancer

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

#Swedish Actress #Audience

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

#Happiness #Swedish Actress

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

#Art

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

#Swedish Actress

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

#Anxiety

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.

#Hollywood

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

#Swedish Actress

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

#Swedish Actress

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.

#Swedish Actress

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.

#Swedish Actress

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

#Fame

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

#Dating

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

#Dating

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.

#Acting And Actors

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

#Swedish Actress #Human

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get

#Happiness

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

#Kisses And Kissing #Love #Swedish Actress #Valentine's Day

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

#Swedish Director