The theater was my mother and ...

The theater was my mother and my father.
 Ingrid Bergman

Quotes from the same author

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
 Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
 Ingrid Bergman
On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
 Ingrid Bergman
The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
 Ingrid Bergman
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
 Ingrid Bergman