I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.' Liv Ullmann More Quotes by Liv Ullmann More Quotes From Liv Ullmann I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there. Liv Ullmann exception long The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid. Liv Ullmann papa void kind The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives. Liv Ullmann summer beautiful book Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. Liv Ullmann being-alone swimming loneliness If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever. Liv Ullmann found-dead cities forever 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 grandmother's lap. Liv Ullmann grandmother grandma baby Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit. Liv Ullmann ibsen birth spirit 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 Ullmann lonely loneliness believe There is so much we have in common today with what was happening then, although it looks different today, the unfairness of how people are living today, compared to the unfairness of how people were living then, it is not better today. Liv Ullmann entertainment We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. Liv Ullmann free good you people The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again. Liv Ullmann more never work people
