Ingrid Bergman

"What is happiness? It depends on two assets, which fortunately I have. They are good health and a short memory."

"It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."

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

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

"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 think 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."

"For me, Ingrid is a wonderful mother and Roberto, a wonderful father. You should see them with their children. There was nothing intellectual about it. They were like animals with their young, so tactile and sensual. The joy of touching the baby's skin! They were always rolling around on the floor with the twins and the little boy. Once, I remember watching Ingrid doing that, and I thought to myself, "This is just like a mother dog with her puppies.""

"Before anything else, she is an actress. I believe that any great artist is an artist first. For example, my father was an artist before he was a husband and a father. Yes, I must say it. Ingrid is that way, too. But she also has many admirable qualities as a woman. She is so honest that she will always prefer a scandal to a lie. If she's at a party and people are talking about a writer who is unknown to her, she'll come out flatly and say, "I haven't read him." But at the same time, she understands more than many people who pretend to be knowledgeable. While she admits her limitations, she has great instinct and understanding."