Greta Garbo Quotes - Page 2

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

I always look well when I'm near death.

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

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

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

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

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'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.

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 never met a man I could marry.

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

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.

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 have made enough faces.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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