Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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.

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

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

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

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

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say what to decide.

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

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.