Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.