Quotes from Ingrid Bergman

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal

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.

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

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

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.