Ingrid Bergman Quotes
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I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.
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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.
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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.
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It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.
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[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.
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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.
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A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.
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I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.
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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.
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I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
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Be yourself. The world worships the original.
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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.
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I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
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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.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
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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.
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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart].
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The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
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Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.
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One is never too old for romance.
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