Top 40 Ingrid Bergman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

— Ingrid Bergman

2. “Be yourself. The world worships the original.”

— Ingrid Bergman

3. “You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

— Ingrid Bergman

4. “I hate Sunday, I can’t wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.”

— Ingrid Bergman

5. “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

— Ingrid Bergman

6. “One is never too old for romance.”

— Ingrid Bergman

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7. “I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up!”

— Ingrid Bergman

8. “A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.”

— Ingrid Bergman

9. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

— Ingrid Bergman

10. “Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.”

— Ingrid Bergman

11. “I regret the things I didn’t do, not what I did.”

— Ingrid Bergman

12. “If you took acting away from me, I’d stop breathing.”

— Ingrid Bergman

13. “Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.”

— Ingrid Bergman

14. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

15. “I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success.”

— Ingrid Bergman

16. “I always felt guilty. My whole life.”

— Ingrid Bergman

17. “Give me an hour and I’ll make a lifetime out of it.”

— Ingrid Bergman

18. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

19. “The first time an autograph hunter told me, ‘You are my mother’s favorite actress,’ I aged twenty years.”

— Ingrid Bergman

20. “I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.”

— Ingrid Bergman

21. “Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.”

— Ingrid Bergman

22. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

23. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

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24. “It is not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.”

— Ingrid Bergman

25. “On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.”

— Ingrid Bergman

26. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

27. “I’m only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.”

— Ingrid Bergman

28. “Never again! I can see no reason for marriage – ever at all. I’ve had it. Three times is enough.”

— Ingrid Bergman

29. “I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.”

— Ingrid Bergman

30. “There’s nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.”

— Ingrid Bergman

31. “I don’t think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.”

— Ingrid Bergman

32. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

33. “I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn’t choose acting. It chose me.”

— Ingrid Bergman

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34. “I didn’t choose acting. It chose me.”

— Ingrid Bergman

35. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

36. “In Hollywood, you’re never any better than your last picture.”

— Ingrid Bergman

37. “I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?”

— Ingrid Bergman

38. “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.”

— Ingrid Bergman

39. “There are advantages to being a star though – you can always get a table in a full restaurant.”

— Ingrid Bergman

40. “The theater was my mother and my father.”

— Ingrid Bergman

41. “I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.”

— Ingrid Bergman