Liv Ullmann
Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmannis a Norwegian actress and film director. She is known as one of the "muses" of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 December 1938
CityTokyo, Japan
CountryNorway
book answers littles
Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.
grief joy answers
I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'
saw
Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie.
gets people whom work
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
good people somebody talk vulnerable
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
almost goes himself isolated peek people reads table
He doesn't want to see people anymore. I know he has isolated himself almost completely. He reads a lot and goes to his writing table every day. For a while I thought he was writing a new film, but I don't think so now. I'll have to take a little peek when I go out there.
beautiful summer book
The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.
spirit birth ibsen
Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
baby grandma grandmother
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.
compassion rights justice
Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.
void papa kind
The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.
lonely loneliness believe
I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.
cities found-dead forever
If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.
loneliness being-alone swimming
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.