Quotes by Ingrid Bergman

• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
• There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
• 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.
• 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.
• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
• If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
• I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.
• I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
• 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 have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
• 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.
• I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
• Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
• Be yourself. The world worships the original.
• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
• 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.
• I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for in chaos lies the beauty of spontaneity and growth.
• Be a voice, not an echo. Stand out in a world that craves conformity and watch your uniqueness shine.
• The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
• The secret to success is to embrace failure as a stepping stone, not a stumbling block.