Greta Garbo Quotes

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

Greta Garbo
One day, there's a hand that goes over the face and changes it. You look like an apple that isn't young anymore.

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

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
What a waste of the best years of my life – always alone – it was so stupid not being able to partake more. Now I'm just a gipsy, living a life apart, but I know my ways and I must not see people.

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

Greta Garbo
Your girls of twenty-one amaze me. They do so much. They go in for athletics of all kinds and dancing, drive their own cars, make their clothes, read all the late plays and books, go to a great many social affairs and are continually taking trips here and there.

Greta Garbo
Our women at home learn to cook and embroider. Some of them take up painting, but that is the extent of our accomplishments. Even our professional women, actresses and singers, do nothing outside their own line of art. Your picture actresses crowd a dozen engagements into each day. I am too tired after my work at the studio. I can do nothing more.

Greta Garbo
I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that?

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

Greta Garbo
Don't call me Greta. I hate that name. Call me G.G. So much nicer, don't you think?

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
Tomorrow I got to work with a lot of people who are dead. It's so sad. I'm an onlooker. I've passed being active in life. It's not a question of time and age – but it's just what you are yourself. One doesn't do the things one doesn't want to do.

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

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

Greta Garbo