Ingrid Bergman

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

“I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.”

“A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous”

“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.”

“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.”

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

“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.”

“Quand je lis quelque chose je suis frappée tout de suite par peut-être une certaine vérité dedans n’est ce pas ? Quelque chose de sincère, et c’est pas nécessaire que c’est tragique ou un drame ca peut être aussi une comédie mais il faut avoir quelque chose de vraie.”

“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. ”

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”