Garbo Quotes

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

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

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word. ~ Greta Garbo

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

The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended. He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any of them, nor even, at the end, to complete an act of contrition. He had not even had time to be disappointed in the Garbo picture which disappointed all Madrid for a week. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. ~ Ethel Barrymore

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored! ~ Greta Garbo

It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now. ~ Giovanna Cau

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people. ~ Greta Garbo

GIVE ME A WHISKEY...GINGER ALE ON THE SIDE...AND DONT BE STINGY BABY ~ Garbo

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' ~ Greta Garbo

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

I have made enough faces. ~ Greta Garbo

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. ~ Greta Garbo

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

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both". ~ Joan Crawford

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 ... ~ Greta Garbo

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

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. ~ Greta Garbo

I never met a man I could marry. ~ Greta Garbo

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent. ~ Judy Holliday

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

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. ~ Greta Garbo

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. ~ Greta Garbo

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

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

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. ~ Greta Garbo

I want to be left alone. ~ Greta Garbo

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. ~ Greta Garbo

I always look well when I'm near death. ~ Greta Garbo

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

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. ~ Kenneth Tynan

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. ~ Robert De Niro

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

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her. ~ Joan Rivers

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. ~ Greta Garbo

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

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo. ~ Luise Rainer

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

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. ~ Greta Garbo

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

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. ~ Agatha Christie

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. ~ Greta Garbo

I was delighted to hear that a number of people returned to see Orphée (as much as five or six times), to the amazement of the managements. This is significant, for the cinema is usually regarded as a place where one drops in for a little entertainment as one would for a glass of beer.
This is why film societies, those Courts of Appeal, have so important a part to play, and why they deserve all the support we can give them. This is why I accepted nomination as President of the fédération des Cinéclubs. But, alas, even film societies are sometimes unable to retrieve old films, which the industrial squall sweeps away in order to clear a space for new ones. We had imagined that great actresses like Greta Garbo would be granted the privilege which was denied to a Rachel or a Sarah Bernhardt. But we were wrong. Today it is impossible to show Garbo in The lady of the Camelias for instance, to the young people who could not see the film when it came out, for all the copies have been meticulously destroyed. The lady of the Camelias is to be remade with new stars and new methods, using all the latest technical inventions, colour, three dimensions, and what not. It is a real disaster. Mrs B., the head of the new York Film Library, finds herself confronted with the same difficulties as Langlois of the Cinémathèque française whenever she endeavours to save a film from oblivion. She finds that she cannot obtain a single copy. Chaplin alone escapes that terrible destruction, because h ~ Jean Cocteau

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

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

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single. ~ Greta Garbo

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. ~ Greta Garbo

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

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

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. ~ Greta Garbo

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

I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible. ~ Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl Of Snowdon

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

You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too. ~ Lee Remick

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

I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge. ~ Kelly Rutherford

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. ~ Greta Garbo