82 Quotes by Ingrid Bergman

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

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.

my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

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.

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

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

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

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

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