Ingmar Bergman Quotes
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
