Quotes on acting 10: Sidney Lumet on Ingrid Bergman

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“In Murder on the Orient Express, I wanted Ingrid Bergman to play the Russian Princess Dragomiroff. She wanted to play the retarded Swedish maid. I wanted Ingrid Bergman. I let her play the maid. She won an Academy Award. I bring this up because self-knowledge is so important in so many ways to an actor.”

— Sidney Lmet
Making Movies

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