Ingmar Bergman Quotes

There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.

Being a TV star is a great gift. Everyone treats you royally.

Fame is like icin' on the cake.

Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

Luxury is a state of mind.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

He [Marquis de Lafayette] has a canine appetite for popularity and fame.

Followers vie keenly with each others as to who shall rank first with his chiefs, the chiefs as to who shall have the most numerous and the bravest followers. It is an honor as well as a source of strength to be thus always surrounded by a large body of picked youths; it is an ornament in peace and a defense in war.

This is why I became an actress. So that people will take care of me. To be an actress is a refuge. You are taken everywhere, stay in wonderful hotels, everyone looks after you.

I'm honored that people would think of me for any big role that is talked about a lot.

You can't really fault people who are experiencing fame. They're just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right back at them. It's strange.

I don't want to acquire whatever 'fame' is.