Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergmanwas a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablancaand as Alicia Huberman in Notorious, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Claude Rains...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth29 August 1915
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
The theater was my mother and my father.
I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.
I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.
[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.
In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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 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.
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.
Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.
The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.
There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.