Ingrid Quotes

(on Ingrid Bergman) I reckon there wasn`t a man who came within a mile of her who didn`t fall in love with her.

(on his divorce from Ingrid Quinn:) "It was great at first, but soon became a real burden. Ingrid found it tough to cope with the fact that all of a sudden I`d become public property as opposed to her husband." (June 9, 2003)

(to Ingrid Bergman when she told him that she couldn`t play a certain character the way he wanted because "I don`t feel like that, I don`t think I can give you that kind of emotion.") "Ingrid - fake it!"

Mostly, we have manufactured ladies -- with the exception of Ingrid, Grace, Deborah and Audrey.

There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.

In my whole life I`ve never had a woman so much in love with me as Ingrid Bergman was. The day after the picture ended I couldn`t get her on the phone.

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn`t do anything I`ve never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she`s saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

Oh, Errol Flynn, I`ve never had the yen. Victor Mature? Don`t know him well but believe Dorothy Parker, a good friend of mine, summed it up well when she said, "He acts as though his body has gone to his head!" My favorite actor of course is Orson Welles. He`s wonderful, magnificent, a darling, and I adore him. I like Humphrey Bogart, too. He`s just as nice as he can be and looks just the same all the time. Ingrid Bergman? She`s just as beautiful and natural off the screen as she is on and is admired by everyone. But one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had known in Mississippi when I was getting my Masters Degree in Philosophy at the University there."