Quotes from Ingrid Bergman

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

The theater was my mother and my father.

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.

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

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

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

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

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.

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

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

One is never too old for romance.

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

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.

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 made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart].

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