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Greta Garbo Quotes & Sayings

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

I have made enough faces. — Greta Garbo

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

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

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. — 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 never met a man I could marry. — 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

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

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

I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was. — Mary Astor

I smoke all the time, one after the other. — Greta Garbo

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored! — 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

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

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

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo. — Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell. — Janet Fitch

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

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

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

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

I want to be alone. — Greta Garbo

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo. — W.C. Sellar

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