Quotes by Greta Garbo

About Greta Garbo:

Greta Garbo was a Swedish film actress and an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances." She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.
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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 never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be alone!' There is all the difference.

Greta Garbo

I want to be alone.

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

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

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameGreta Garbo
  • DescriptionSwedish and American cinema actress
  • BornSeptember 18, 1905
  • DiedApril 15, 1990
  • CountrySweden; United States Of America
  • ProfessionActor