“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.”

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

“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.”

“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. ”

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

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