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 More Quotes by Liv Ullmann More Quotes From Liv Ullmann One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces. Liv Ullmann healthymotivationalinspirational Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks. Liv Ullmann blockrealfriendship I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change. Liv Ullmann who-i-amchoicesthinking It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely Liv Ullmann wake-uplonelyknowing Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman. Liv Ullmann privilegetiredlittles 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. Liv Ullmann choicesmissinggoes-on We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should. Liv Ullmann voiceimportantmen If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. Liv Ullmann differencesacceptingsex Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for. Liv Ullmann encountersanswersbook Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences. Liv Ullmann life-experienceactorsacting Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life. Liv Ullmann eveningactorsacting 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 griefjoylife I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face. Liv Ullmann sawsmirrorsage reality can be magnificent even when life is not. Liv Ullmann magnificentlife-isreality Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home. Liv Ullmann selfrootshome The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real. Liv Ullmann lonelinessreal What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man. It makes me love him more. I think it is sad that more women don't take the chance that maybe men will be moved by seeing the chin a little less firm than it used to be, that a man will be more in love with his wife because he remembers who she was and sees who she is and thinks, God, isn't that lovely that this happened to her. And be moved by life telling its story there. Liv Ullmann wrinklesmenthinking It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and producers are looking at different kinds of films and maybe not necessarily what a woman would want to do. Liv Ullmann actorsdifferentdirectors It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well. Liv Ullmann actorsdirectorsart Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human. Liv Ullmann choicesessencebelieve
