Ingrid Bergman Quotes – Timeless Wisdom, Love, and Classic Hollywood Elegance

The best way to stay young is to keep working. Then just relax and have fun.

I went from being a saint to a prostitute and back again. And all in one lifetime.

People don’t expect me to have emotions like other women.

I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money. It’s talent and passion that count for success.

I remember sitting by the pool one day and suddenly tears were streaming down my face. Why was I so unhappy? I had success and security. But that wasn’t enough and I was bursting inside.

I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I had worried about what people thought of me.

Happiness is having good health and a terrible memory.

I don’t worry about getting old. If I were the only one, I would. But we’re all in the same boat, and all my friends are coming with me! We are all going to grow old. We don’t know how old we will be. We just have to accept it.

My time is getting shorter. But every day that I defy this type of cancer and survive is already a victory for me.

I was the shyest of human beings, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up.

You have to train your intuition and trust the voice that comes from within you and tells you exactly what to do.

Be yourself! The world loves the original.

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

There are advantages to being a star: you can always get a table in a crowded restaurant.

I have always felt guilty all my life.

I don’t think anyone has the right to interfere in your life. They have to know how to separate the actress from the woman!

I can do everything with ease on stage, whereas in real life I feel very big and clumsy.

I have grown up alone. I have taken care of myself, because at 18 I was already earning my own money and was independent.

Having a house, a husband and a child should be enough for any woman’s life. I mean, that’s what we are meant to have, isn’t it? But I still feel that every day is a wasted day. As if only half of me is alive. The other half is squeezed into a bag and suffocated.

Acting is the best medicine in the world. If you are not feeling well, the discomfort soon goes away, because you are always busy thinking that you are not yourself. We actors are very happy people.

Cancer victims who do not accept their fate and do not learn to live with the disease, destroy the little time they have left.

I always wanted to do comedies, but nobody discovered that until I was old. They think that all Swedes are like Greta Garbo.

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Carla Marinho Leal

Writer, traveler and above all, curious about many subjects. She has studied cinema since 2002 and is a Specialist in Cinematographic Studies from UNICAP. Founder of the blog Purviance and the website Cinemaclássico. She loves Charles Chaplin, Raj Kapoor and constantly browses films from all over the world.

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