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Ingrid Bergman
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“I've never sought success in order to get fame and money: it's the talent and the passion that count in success.”
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“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.”
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“[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.”
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“I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.”
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“... when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.”
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“Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.”
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“The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.”
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“The theater was my mother and my father.”
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“I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.”
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“In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.”
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“I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.”
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“... my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.”
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“It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.”
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“Youth is not time of life — it is a state of mind.”
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“I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.”
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“Until forty-five I can still play a woman in love. After fifty-five I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years it is difficult for an actress.”
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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
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“Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become — but your views become more extensive.”
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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actor
(1915 - 1982)