I have the experience of age and suffering. Liv Ullmann More Quotes by Liv Ullmann More Quotes From Liv Ullmann The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. Liv Ullmann best-thingssuccesslong it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. Liv Ullmann statisticsdeathpeople I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose. Liv Ullmann passionorderbelieve I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile. Liv Ullmann lonelypeoplethinking What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. Liv Ullmann imperfectionmen I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard. Liv Ullmann voiceimportanttrying There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it's perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject. Liv Ullmann differencesdepthperfect I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change. Liv Ullmann realizingdifferentway We who are alive at this moment are only an infinitesimal part of something that has existed for eternity and will continue when there is no longer anything to show that earth existed. Still, we must feel and believe that we are all. Liv Ullmann alivelifebelieve Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights. Liv Ullmann compassionrightsjustice I 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 augustbookthinking Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text. Liv Ullmann feministphonesvoice August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her. Liv Ullmann augustopportunitymen We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so we are as needy and wanting to be part of him, as he, obviously, was needing and wanting to be part of us. And that's why I've really taken the freedom, because it's an adaptation, to give her a voice. Liv Ullmann voicetakenmen I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side. Liv Ullmann i-cansidespeople Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen. Liv Ullmann theaterfilmwonderful Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome. Liv Ullmann heromenbook We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing. Liv Ullmann feministvoicetwo You see that a lot in movies, and today you see it more in movies that are made, because I feel more movies are made towards groups than towards individuals, and they're made more for mass media than for sitting in a movie house allowing it to happen. Liv Ullmann groupsmediahouse The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older. Liv Ullmann wiseragemen
