Ingrid Bergman - biography

“Because I’m a Swede I always suffer in films, drive audiences out into the night sobbing.  Look at the Bells of St Mary’s.  I was happy and gay but there had to be something wrong.  So they gave me TB.”

“I always wanted to do comedies but nobody discovered this until my old age.  They think all Swedes are like Garbo.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I never knew how [Casablanca] was going to end, if I was really in love with my husband or Bogart.  So I had no idea how I should play the character.  I kept begging them to give me the ending but they’d say: ‘We haven’t made up our minds.  We’ll shoot it both ways.’ We did the first ending and they said: ‘That’s good.  We won’t bother with the other.’”

“I wish sometimes I could play roles I don’t believe in.  It might give me a wider range.”

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

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

“Keep it simple.  Make a blank face, and the music and the story will fill it in.”

“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.”

“[On Anastasia:] Yul Brynner was shorter.  I suggested putting a little block under him.  ‘You think I want to play it standing on a box?  I’ll show the world what a big horse you are!’ I never had complex about my height after that.”

“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.”

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

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

“Be yourself.  The world worships the original.”

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“: One is never too old for romance.”

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

“All my marriages were good and what follows love, or should do, is deep friendship.”

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

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

“I’ve gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.”

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

Ingrid Bergman has appeared in the following films:
Landskamp (1932)
Munkbrogreven (1935)
Bränningar (1935)
Swedenhielms (1935)
Valborgsmässoafton (1935)
Pa solsidan (1936)
Intermezzo (1936)
Dollar (1938)
Die Vier Gesellen (1938)
En Kvinnas ansikte (1938)
En enda natt (1939)
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
Juninatten (1940)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
Rage in Heaven (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Gaslight (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
American Creed (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stromboli (1950)
Europa ’51 (1952)
Viaggio in Italia (1954)
La Paura (1954)
Giovanna d’Arco al rogo (1954)
Elena et les hommes (1956)
Anastasia (1956)
Indiscreet (1958)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Goodbye Again (1961)
Auguste (1961)
The Visit (1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
Stimulantia (1967)
Cactus Flower (1969)
Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
A Matter of Time (1976)
Autumn Sonata (1978)