Greta Garbo Quotes

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

I have made enough faces.

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free - I had to work hard.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

I want to be left alone.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

It's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

I never met a man I could marry.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

Bartender! Vring me some viskey with chincher ale on de side & don't be stingy, baby. (Garbo's first words in a talking picture)

All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

I always look well when I'm near death.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise ...

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.