Ingrid Bergman (1915–82) was 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 and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart, and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Kisses, Kissing, Love
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.
—Ingrid Bergman
We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster’s whim and the purest ideal
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Anxiety
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Memory, Happiness
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Adversity, Cancer
If you took acting away from me, I’d stop breathing.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Acting
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.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Cancer
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Kiss
You must train your intuition—you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
—Ingrid Bergman
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy?. I had success. I had security. But it wasn’t enough. I was exploding inside.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Unhappiness
It is not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Actors, Audiences, Acting
I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success.
—Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Talent, Success
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