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

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 have made enough faces.

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

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

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

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.

I never met a man I could marry.

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

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

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

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

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

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 always look well when I'm near death.

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

Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.

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

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

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

I want to be left alone.

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.

If you're going to die on screen, you've got to be strong and in good health.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

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.

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

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

I don't like to talk to people, because I can't express myself satisfactorily. I don't say the things I mean.

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

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

I want to be alone.

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

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

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

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

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 ...

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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