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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
— Kenneth Tynan
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
— Ingrid Bergman
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
— Ingmar Bergman
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
— Ingmar Bergman
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
— Ingmar Bergman
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
— Ingmar Bergman
Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.
— Max Von Sydow
To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
— Ingmar Bergman
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.
— Ingrid Bergman
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
— Ingmar Bergman
...there is a certain freedom to being totally f#cked...
— Andrew Bergman
When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
— Baltasar Kormakur
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
— Ingmar Bergman
For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
— Ingmar Bergman
I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.
— Peter Bergman
I would have been happier if I'd been anonymous.
— Ingmar Bergman
I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.
— Ingmar Bergman
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
— Ingmar Bergman
I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.
— Ingmar Bergman
Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.
— Ingmar Bergman
To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that
— Ingmar Bergman
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
— Ingmar Bergman
You know I feel such tenderness for you. It's difficult to bear. I don't know what to do with my tenderness.
— Ingmar Bergman
My education was very tough.
— Ingmar Bergman
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
— Ingmar Bergman
Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.
— Ingrid Bergman
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
— Ingmar Bergman
Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.
— Max Von Sydow
I always felt guilty. My whole life.
— Ingrid Bergman
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
— Ingrid Bergman
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
— Ingmar Bergman
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
— Ingmar Bergman
The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
— Ingmar Bergman
If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.
— Humphrey Bogart
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful.
— Ingmar Bergman
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
— Ingrid Bergman
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
I usually say I left puberty at 58.
— Ingmar Bergman
Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It's your life. Let's have a martini.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
— Ingrid Bergman
Imagine: you could say nothing, do nothing, eat nothing, touch nothing, love nothing without the other knowing.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
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
I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they had children.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
— Ingrid Bergman
I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
— Ingmar Bergman
I always work with 18 friends.
— Ingmar Bergman
It's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoesI never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible — Gregory Corso
Necessary illusions enable us to live.
— Ingmar Bergman
Dolly was the exclamation point in my life. She made me feel things: adoration, anger, frustration. She was always in love and it made her glow.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
— Ingmar Bergman
I think I have made just one picture that I really like ...
— Ingmar Bergman
Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.
— Ingmar Bergman
Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!
— Ingrid Bergman
I don't want him to know that people like Louis's mom exist, that people fall into land mines of pain and can't crawl back out.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.
— Ingmar Bergman
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
— Ingrid Bergman
The theater was my mother and my father.
— Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
— Ingrid Bergman
I knew I was waiting for someone I didn't understand.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
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We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny
— Jaime Bergman
The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
— Ingrid Bergman
I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
— Lowell Bergman
I could always live in my art but never in my life
— Ingmar Bergman
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.
— Ingrid Bergman
Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
— Ingmar Bergman
I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
— Ingrid Bergman
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I want him to know nothing but gentle landings.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
— Ingmar Bergman
She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.
— Peter Bergman
Sara: As professor emeritus, you ought to know why it hurts. But you don't know.Sara: You know so much, and you don't know anything. — Ingmar Bergman
I owe Mr. Bergman so much.
— Max Von Sydow
Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
— Ingmar Bergman
Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.
— Ingmar Bergman
They said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst
— Ingmar Bergman
It's so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.
— Ingmar Bergman
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
— 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
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
— Ingmar Bergman
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
— Ingmar Bergman
When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
— Ingmar Bergman
We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.
— Ingmar Bergman