Ingrid Bergman Quotes

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

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

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

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

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].

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

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

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.

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 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.

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

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

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

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

One is never too old for romance.

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

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

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

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

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

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

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.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

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

The theater was my mother and my father.

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.

I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

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

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say what to decide.