Quotes by Liv Ullmann

“We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldnt be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.”

“Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, Smile, Grandma! I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmothers lap”

“Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.”

“I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.”

“The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.”

“The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.”

“He doesnt want to see people anymore. I know he has isolated himself almost completely. He reads a lot and goes to his writing table every day. For a while I thought he was writing a new film, but I dont think so now. Ill have to take a little peek when I go out there.”

“[Ullmann, 66, still feels very close to Marianne.] Of all the things I did for Ingmar, this is the character I could most associate with, ... He based a lot of it on what he knew about me. I also felt she was the least neurotic of all the women I played for him.”

“Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie.”

“Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.”

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter but real talk. We shouldnt be so afraid because most people really like this contact that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me if I fail to make my own choices the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.