Liv Ullmann Quotes

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I am always quoting a sentence of Kierkegaard's even though he may not have written it: 'We come into this world with sealed orders.'

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I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

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Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

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He [Ingmar Bergman] called me his Stradivarius. I can see today that I was beautiful, but I never felt so.... I was normally neurotic, but Ingmar liked to say that, unlike him, I was born in one piece.

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Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

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If a person is found dead here, a postmortem will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.

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The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

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Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

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Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

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We who are alive at this moment are only an infinitesimal part of something that has existed for eternity and will continue when there is no longer anything to show that earth existed. Still, we must feel and believe that we are all.

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Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

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The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

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I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

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I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me — to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.

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The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

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I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

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The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

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I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'

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Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

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It is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

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I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

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One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces. Wounds do not have a chance to fester.

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If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. Whatever the life we have chosen to live.

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I paid school friends to go to the movies with me. I barely spoke until I was thirty. Ingmar [Bergman] and I recognized each other as born outsiders.

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My father died when I was six, so I sought a reflection of myself from wise older men.

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