I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

The theater was my mother and my father.

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.

I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.