Ullmann Quotes & Sayings

While 'A Blessed Child' might have been a more tough-minded book had Ullmann thrown a spanner into the works, it's not hard to understand her decision to keep things going. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. — Liv Ullmann

It is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. — Liv Ullmann

Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act. — Liv Ullmann

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

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again. — Liv Ullmann

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. — Liv Ullmann

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

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing. — Linn Ullmann

The coupling of aryl halides with copper at very high temperature is called the Ullmann reaction, which is of broad scope and has been used to prepare many symmetrical biaryls. However, when a mixture of two different aryl halides is used, there are three possible biaryl products. — Akira Suzuki

AWAY OF EASING THE BURDEN THAT FREEDOM OF CHOICE IMPOSES IS to make decisions about when to make decisions. These are what Cass Sunstein and Edna Ullmann-Margalit call second-order decisions. One kind of second-order decision is the decision to follow a rule. — Barry Schwartz

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit. — Liv Ullmann

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid. — Liv Ullmann

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

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring. — Linn Ullmann

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

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

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

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

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely — Liv Ullmann

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?' — Linn Ullmann

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

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. — Liv Ullmann

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights. — Liv Ullmann

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives. — Liv Ullmann

For what is God's will, but that we should be reconciled to ourselves. — Regina Ullmann

I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann. — Joel Edgerton

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

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. — Linn Ullmann

The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real. — Liv Ullmann

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences. — Liv Ullmann

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

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life. — Liv Ullmann

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

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose. — Liv Ullmann

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. — Liv Ullmann

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

It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely. — Liv Ullmann

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

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human. — Liv Ullmann

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever. — Liv Ullmann

Reality can be magnificent even when life is not. — Liv Ullmann

I have the experience of age and suffering. — Linn Ullmann