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
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
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.
One is never too old for romance.
I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
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.
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.
my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.