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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
...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
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
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
— 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
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
— 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
Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.
— Max Von Sydow
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
— Ingmar Bergman
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
— Ingrid 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
Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.
— Ingrid Bergman
The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
— Ingmar Bergman
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
— Ingmar Bergman
Necessary illusions enable us to live.
— Ingmar Bergman
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
— Ingrid 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
Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.
— Ingmar Bergman
I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
— 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
Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal (1957).
— John Eliot Gardiner
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
— John W. Bergman
I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
— Ken Adam
Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
— Ingmar Bergman
Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye.
— Marilyn Bergman
My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
— Lowell Bergman
Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It's your life. Let's have a martini.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
— Ingmar 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
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
— Julie Delpy
There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.
— Ingrid 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
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
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
As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow
— Ray 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
I think I have made just one picture that I really like ...
— Ingmar Bergman
We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny
— Jaime 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
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
— Ingrid 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
She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.
— Peter Bergman
The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
— 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
Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
— Ingmar 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 always felt guilty. My whole life.
— Ingrid Bergman
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
Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.
— Max Von Sydow
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 want him to know nothing but gentle landings.
— Megan Mayhew Bergman
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
— Ingmar 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
I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible — Gregory Corso
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
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
I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
— Max Von Sydow
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
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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
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