Ingrid Bergman Quotes

A new beginning done right," she said out loud, because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true. "You hear that, karma?" She glanced upward through her slightly leaky sunroof into a dark sky, where storm clouds tumbled together like a dryer full of gray wool blankets. "This time, I'm gong to be strong." Like Katharine Hepburn. Like Ingrid Bergman ."So go torture someone else and leave me alone."
A bolt of lightning blinded her, followed by a boom of thunder that nearly had her jerking out of her skin. "Okay, so I meant pretty please leave me alone."
-Maddie ~ Jill Shalvis

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

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

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ~ Ingrid Bergman

I always felt guilty. My whole life. ~ Ingrid Bergman

In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it. ~ Ingrid Bergman

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~ Ingrid Bergman

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

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

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

When one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say. ~ Ingrid Bergman

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden. ~ Kenneth Tynan

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. ~ Ingrid Bergman

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

It's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes
I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible ~ Gregory Corso

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. ~ Ingrid Bergman

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

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

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

I watched as Humphrey Bogart's character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman's character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn't. I didn't care. I had enough problems of my own. ~ Graeme Simsion

Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. ~ Haruki Murakami

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

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. ~ Ingrid Bergman

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. ~ Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech. ~ Ingrid Bergman

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

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

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

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. ~ Ingrid Bergman

There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman. ~ Cary Grant

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

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

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

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

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic." ~ Humphrey Bogart

If you grant someone a small loan and you never see that person again, consider absolutely worth the payment for his disappearance from your life. ~ Ingrid Holm-Garibay

I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time. ~ Ingmar Bergman

Need a ride home?"
"Yes."
But she keeps sitting there.
"Let's go."
"You're taking me?"
"It's a pretty standard way of offering," I say. "I wasn't asking for informational purposes. Fascinating as the answer was. ~ Ingrid Paulson

When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films. ~ Wallace Shawn

The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions. ~ Torbern Bergman

HOW DO WE put together the jigsaw puzzle of our lives? How do we find the right shapes and make them fit together so that they form an image we can recognize? It is not easy even when all the pieces are assembled in front of us and we have the picture on the box to compare it with. How much harder when we lack the solid, clear-cut corners to build out from. This ~ Ingrid Von Oelhafen

When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn and you can't step back. All you can do is keep moving forward and remember what you've learned. ~ Ingrid Law

Passing is one of the few words in the transgender lexicon that's not a medical-legacy word. We did ever so much better with this one: it's a racist-legacy word, a legacy of the time when Africans were kidnapped from their homeland to be enslaved in the Americas. If you're not familiar with this, a hierarchy of race developed in which the lighter your skin was, the more attractive and intelligent you were considered, and someone quite light-skinned could sometimes pass for white and live in white society. ~ S. Bear Bergman

You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero. ~ Lowell Bergman

Parents do not have the right to hurt their children. ~ Ingrid Holm-Garibay

I feel very strongly that I'm surrounded by other realities. ~ Ingmar Bergman

His beard was thick and red - and annoyed his mother, who said only Hajis, men who had made the pilgrimage to Mecca, should grow red beards. His hair, however, was rather darker. His sky-eyes you know about. Ingrid had said, "They went mad with the colors when they made your face. ~ Salman Rushdie

I we want peace, let's work for justice. ~ Ingrid Holm-Garibay

Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call. ~ Ingmar Bergman

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films. ~ Ingmar Bergman

If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy. ~ Ingmar Bergman

I wished that I ... had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless. ~ Ingrid Law

If you believe what you say, words become reality. ~ Ingrid Betancourt

If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down. ~ Ingrid Michaelson

No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me. ~ Nina LaCour

You both love Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne and Melville, Flaubert and Stendahl, but at that stage of your life you cannot stomach Henry James, while Gwyn argues that he is the giant of giants, the colossus who makes all other novelists look like pygmies. You are in complete harmony about the greatness of Kafka and Beckett, but when you tell her that Celine belongs in their company, she laughs at you and calls him a fascist maniac. Wallace Stevens yes, but next in line for you is William Carlos Williams, not T.S. Eliot, whose work Gwyn can recite from memory. You defend Keaton, she defends Chaplin, and while you both howl at the sight of the Marx Brothers, your much-adored W.C. Fields cannot coax a single smile from her. Truffaut at his best touches you both, but Gwyn finds Godard pretentious and you don't, and while she lauds Bergman and Antonioni as twin masters of the universe, you reluctantly tell her that you are bored by their films. No conflicts about classical music, with J.S. Bach at the top of the list, but you are becoming increasingly interested in jazz, while Gwyn still clings to the frenzy of rock and roll, which has stopped saying much of anything to you. She likes to dance, and you don't. She laughs more than you do and smokes less. She is a freer, happier person than you are, and whenever you are with her, the world seems brighter and more welcoming, a place where your sullen, introverted self can almost begin to feel at home. ~ Paul Auster

I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and also - I am so gratified to report - they sometimes check in with one another. Correspondences have sprung up and friendships have started to form beyond my influence. Family has begun to take on a transitive property as well. ~ S. Bear Bergman

I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me. ~ Ingmar Bergman

When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting. ~ Ingmar Bergman

Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares? ~ Ingrid Betancourt

Some fears can be conquered...Others have a way of coming back around. Sometimes at the moment you least expect. Often with the very worst possible timing. Fear makes it hard to think. And when you can't think, it's hard to figure out your choices. When you can't see all your options, all you can do is react.

- Uncle Autry ~ Ingrid Law

sea//c.
i.
I have been
told
by many
that
men
taste
like the
ocean.
Maybe it's because
so many
of their ancestors
got lost at sea
but finally made their way to
shore;
the salt in their pores.
ii.
-A sailor & his sinking ship-
buoyant & blue
there is siren in the sea,
instead of salt
there is death
on her skin
-you cannot let waves win you over as easily as this-
sink or swim
choose one;
swim.
iii.
You make it to shore
and I tell you
the sea and the sky look the same to me.
Except one
is not as wet as
your eyes when
you weep
and our lips
when they meet.
iv.
meanwhile,
mermaids
make love
to men
they do not know. ~ Ingrid Vargas

In Woody Allen movies people stood in line for Ingmar Bergman films or Holocaust documentaries talking up media theory to pass the time. At 16 that was my idea of fun. Now that I live in New York I can tell you that people lined up for tickets don't debate theory. They talk about cute guys at the gym or whether or not they live within walking distance of a Krispy Kreme. I was such a young fogy that growing up involved becoming less mature. ~ Sarah Vowell

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven't read, find out things I haven't yet found out. I want to write things I haven't written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life. ~ Ingmar Bergman

Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight. ~ Ingrid Weir

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. ~ Lowell Bergman

Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending. ~ Megan Mayhew Bergman

I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them. ~ Ingrid Nkenlifack

If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person. ~ Ingrid Betancourt

I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you. ~ Ingrid Betancourt

There is no time like the pleasant. ~ George Bergman

I've seen you in action, BB. You get turned on by danger. You are seeking danger. The only reason you're with me is the risk of getting caught by your wife."

Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup ~ Steen Langstrup

Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional. ~ Vilmos Zsigmond