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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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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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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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.
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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.
