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.

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.

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

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.