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
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.
I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.
In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.
I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous
I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.
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.
I always felt guilty. My whole life.
I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.
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.