Quotes from Liv Ullmann

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

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

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

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

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.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

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.

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

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

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

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

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.

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