Liv Ullmann movie quotes

“The mother's injuries are to be handed down to the daughter. The mother's failures are to be paid for by the daughter. The mother's unhappiness is to be the daughter's unhappiness. It's as if the umbilical cord had never been cut.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“It's just fear and priggishness to believe in limits. There are no limits, neither to thoughts nor feelings. It's anxiety that sets limits.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“- David: Come here, Marie. Come. Look in the mirror. You're beautiful. Perhaps even more than when we were together. But you've changed and I want you to see how. Now your eyes cast quick, calculating, side glances. You used to look ahead straightforwardly, openly, without disguise. Your mouth has a slightly hungry, dissatisfied expression. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
Erland Josephson - David
Liv Ullmann - Maria

“- Maria: I think you're joking with me. I know where you see it.
- David: Where?
- Maria: In yourself. Because you and I are so alike.
- David: You mean in our selfishness, coldness and indifference?”

Liv Ullmann - Maria
Erland Josephson - David

“You managed to injure me for life, just as you are injured.”

Liv Ullmann - Eva

“You talk of my hatred. Your hatred was no less.”

Liv Ullmann - Eva

“You're shut up inside yourself and always standing your own light.”

Liv Ullmann - Eva

“One thing I did understand: not a shred of the real me could be loved or accepted. I didn't dare to be myself even when I was alone because I hated what was my own.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“You said my hair was too long and you had it cut short, it was hideous! Then you thought that I had crooked teeth, and you got me braces, I looked so grotesque! You would buy me books and I would read them and not understand them, and you would make me talk about them, and I would always be afraid that you would show up my stupidity.”

Liv Ullmann - Eva

“- Jack Edwards: ...but to blame all this on a French philosopher who's been dead for 300 years, isn't that a little out of proportion? Maybe even a little eccentric?
- Sonia Hoffman: No. Not if I'm right.”
Sam Waterston - Jack Edwards
Liv Ullmann - Sonia Hoffman

“I'm going to persist. I won't give up, even if it is too late. I don't think it is too late. It must not be too late.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“There can be no forgiveness.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“- Charlotte Andergast: You can't blame me entirely.
- Eva: You expect an exception for you. You've set up a sort of discount system with life but one day you'll see that your agreement is one-sided.”
Ingrid Bergman - Charlotte Andergast
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“All that was sensitive and delicate, you attacked. All that was alive, you tried to smother.”

Liv Ullmann - Eva

“A mother and a daughter, what a terrible combination.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“To me, man is a tremendous creation, an inconceivable thought. In man is everything, from the highest to lowest.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“Somewhere in this world a child dies of starvation every two seconds... now... now... now...”
Liv Ullmann - Sonia Hoffman

“Everything exists side by side. Realities, not only the reality we perceive with our dull senses, but a tumult of realities arching above each other inside and outside.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“Maybe everything is already too late.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“Are the daughter's miseries the mother's triumphs?”
Liv Ullmann - Eva