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Liv Ullmann Biography

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director. She is known as one of the "muses" of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

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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.

Feminist, Incredible, Outlets, Today, Two, Voice

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.

Home, Roots, Self, Sunk, Truest, Wherever

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.

Baby, Grandma, Grandmother, Lady, Places

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

Bergman, Ingmar, Littles, Privilege, Tired, Working

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Acting, Actors, Become, Life, Life Experience, Turn

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.

Change, Different, Old, Realizing, Way

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.

August, Book, Say, Thinking, Translation, Wonderful

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.

Groups, House, Individuals, Media, Movie, Movies

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

Accepting, Concerned, Difference, Differences, Sex, Values

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.

Alone, Believe, Loneliness, Lonely, Wake

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Being Alone, Hollywood, Loneliness, Pool, Swimming

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

Film, Live, Theater, Wonderful

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.

Class System, Freedom, Incredible, Men, Missed, Opportunity

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.

Accepting, Choices, Goes On, Life, Missing

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

Healthy, Inspirational, Like, Motivational, Profession, Things

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

Coming, Exception, Lived, Long, Maybe

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.

Answers, Book, Cover, Encounters, Life, Living

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.

Man, Men, Thinking, Throat, Women, Wrinkles

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.

Alive, Believe, Existed, Infinitesimal, Life, Longer

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

Age, Face, Faces, Mirrors, Saw, Woman

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