Ingrid Bergman movie quotes

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
Ingrid Bergman

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman

“- Ilsa Lund: I said I would never leave you.
- Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of.”
Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

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

“Kiss me as if it were the last time.”

Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund

“I guess I'm the girl nobody remembers.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman

“- Alicia: Do you love me, Commodore?
- Commodore: You're a very beautiful woman.
- Alicia: I'll have another drink to appreciate that.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Charles Mendl - Commodore

Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism".

Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman

“- Alicia: I'm terrified.
- Devlin: Just pretend you're a janitor. Janitors are never terrified.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Alicia: Don't ever leave me.
- Devlin: You'll never get rid of me again.
- Alicia: Never tried to.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman

“- Alicia: Say it again, it keeps me awake.
- Devlin: I love you.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Alicia: This is a very strange love affair.
- Devlin: Why?
- Alicia: Maybe the fact that you don't love me.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman
Cary Grant - Devlin

“- Dr. Alex Brulov: And how do you know what his real character is?
- Constance Petersen: I know. I know.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: She knows. This is the way science goes backward. Who told you what he is? Freud?, or a crystal ball?”
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“- Dr. Alex Brulov: We are speaking of a schizophrenic and not a Valentine.
- Constance Petersen: We are speaking of a man.”
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“- Constance Petersen: All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.
- John Ballantyne: Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peck - John Ballantyne

“- Constance Petersen: People fall in love, as they put it, because they respond to a certain hair coloring or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents.
- Anthony Edwardes: Or... or... sometimes for no reason at all.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen
Edward Fielding - Dr. Anthony Edwardes

“People read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“- Constance Petersen: I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets.
- Anthony Edwardes: Oh, poets are dull boys, most of them, but not especially fiendish.
- Constance Petersen: They keep filling people's heads with delusions about love... writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra or a flight of angels.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen
Edward Fielding - Dr. Anthony Edwardes

“Did anyone ever tell you that you have a dishonest face? For a priest, I mean.”

Ingrid Bergman - Sister Mary Benedict

“- Father Chuck O'Malley: And if you ever need anything, no matter what it is or wherever you happen to be...
- Sister Mary Benedict: Yes, I know. I just dial O for O'Malley.”
Bing Crosby - Father Chuck O'Malley
Ingrid Bergman - Sister Mary Benedict

“- Father Chuck O'Malley: There's another sense, you know, Sister.
- Sister Mary Benedict: Oh, don't tell me.
- Father Chuck O'Malley: Yes, sense enough to know when to leave.”
Bing Crosby - Father Chuck O'Malley
Ingrid Bergman - Sister Mary Benedict

“If we don't fail sometimes, our successes won't mean anything. You must have courage. Don't give up.”
Ingrid Bergman - Sister Mary Benedict

“You don't become a nun to run away from life, Patsy. It's not because you've lost something. It's because you've found something.”
Ingrid Bergman - Sister Mary Benedict

“I'm seized by fear and see a horrible picture of myself. I have never grown up. My face and my body have aged. I acquire memories and experiences but inside all that I haven't even been born. I can't remember any faces not even my own.”
Ingrid Bergman - Charlotte Andergast