Famous Bergman Quotations

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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
by Ingrid Bergman
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
by Ingrid Bergman
"I hope I never get so old I get religious."
by Ingmar Bergman
"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."
by Ingrid Bergman
"She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them."
by John Gielgud (about Ingrid Bergman)
"There is no time like the pleasant."
by George Bergman
"It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."
by Ingrid Bergman
"The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death."
by Morris Bergman
"Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness."
by Ingmar Bergman
"You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide."
by Ingrid Bergman
"I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect."
by Ingmar Bergman
"What are you doing for the rest of your life, North and South and East and West of your life, I have only one request of your life. That you spend it all with me."
by Bergman
"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."
by Ingrid Bergman
"Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were."
by George E. Bergman


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