Ingmar Bergman Quotes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

I understand that everything is dictated by market value. But cinema is also an art. It saddens me to see great talent languishing for lack of proper roles.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.

It's always been the ones that got away that stick in your memory. You use them for motivation. The ones you win are brilliant and you enjoy them, and then you move on.

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

I wish my grandpa could have seen me wrestle, even once.

Since I was 20, I wanted to make a short film and send it to international short film festivals. It never happened. I became too big a star to indulge in those things.