Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergmanwas 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, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablancaand as Alicia Huberman in Notorious, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Claude Rains...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth29 August 1915
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
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.
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
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.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
One is never too old for romance.
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.
Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.
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.
I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.
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.
I didn't choose acting. It chose me.