Ingrid Bergman Quotes

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

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

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

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

Ingrid Bergman
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
When one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

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

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

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

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Dear Mr. Rossellini, I saw your films Open City and Paisan, and enjoyed them very much. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French, and who in Italian knows only "ti amo," I am ready to come and make a film with you.

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Until forty-five I can still play a woman in love. After fifty-five I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years it is difficult for an actress.

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

Ingrid Bergman
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