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.

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.