12 Quotes & Sayings By Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was born on 23rd June 1915 in Stockholm, Sweden to a distinguished family of actors. Her father, actor and director Erik Bergman, and her mother, actress disturbing (Camilla Horn) were two of Sweden's leading stars in the 1920s and '30s. Ingrid made her screen debut at age three in a film called The Blue Light, directed by her father. In 1927, at the age of six, she was chosen to play a small part in a silent film called Smiles of a Summer Night Read more

Ingrid's first major role came when she was eight years old when she was chosen to play a young peasant girl who becomes the temptation for her uncle in a movie directed by Victor Sjostrom called The Joyless Street. In 1930, at the age of nine, Ingrid played a role in another Victor Sjöström movie called The Serpent's Egg. Both of these movies were released in 1930.

In 1934 when she was eleven years old Ingrid played the lead role in Anna Christie which brought her international attention. In 1935 Ingrid shot to fame when she played Greta Garbo's role in Anna Karenina which became one of Ingrid's most famous parts. Because of this movie Ingrid became one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood.

She won her first Oscar for Best Actress at the age of seventeen in 1936 for this movie.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to...
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what...
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
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I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it! " Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it! " It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time. Ingrid Bergman
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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
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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
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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
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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. Ingrid Bergman
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness. Ingrid Bergman
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. Ingrid Bergman
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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