49 Quotes by Liv Ullmann

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie.

He doesn't want to see people anymore. I know he has isolated himself almost completely. He reads a lot and goes to his writing table every day. For a while I thought he was writing a new film, but I don't think so now. I'll have to take a little peek when I go out there.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.