LIV ULLMANN

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

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.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.

We who are alive at this moment are only an infinitesimal part of something that has existed for eternity and will continue when there is no longer anything to show that earth existed. Still, we must feel and believe that we are all.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

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.

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

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.'

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

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.

We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so we are as needy and wanting to be part of him, as he, obviously, was needing and wanting to be part of us. And that's why I've really taken the freedom, because it's an adaptation, to give her a voice.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.