Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart].

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

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.