Liv Ullmann Quotes

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

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

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

reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

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.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it's perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

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

I have the experience of age and suffering.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

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

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

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.