I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.
Liv UllmannThe void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.
Liv UllmannOne of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.
Liv UllmannI'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.
Liv UllmannI think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.
Liv UllmannI had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German translations, and I did everything to make the best English translation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie I could. And then, there I went. "Oh! I think she's thinking this, but I think she should say it!" And so on. It's wonderful to do that.
Liv Ullmann