INGRID BERGMAN

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.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

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.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

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.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

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.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

If I had known of discrimination before I signed I wouldn’t have come. I heard in the midst of rehearsal a few days ago that no Negro can come into the theater. And in the capital city, too. Before I came to America, I didn’t know there was any place where colored people could not come in.

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.

Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.

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.

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.