Ingrid Bergman Quotes

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Be yourself. The world worships the original."

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

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

"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying"

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

"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."

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