Greta Garbo

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

— Greta Garbo

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one…

— Greta Garbo

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of…

— Greta Garbo

I never met a man I could marry.

— 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…

— Greta Garbo

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

— Greta Garbo

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

— Greta Garbo

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

— 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

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used…

— Greta Garbo

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

— 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

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

— Greta Garbo

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

— 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

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All…

— Greta Garbo

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

— 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

All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the…

— Greta Garbo

Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started…

— Greta Garbo

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

— Greta Garbo

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

— Greta Garbo

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked…

— Greta Garbo

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows,…

— Greta Garbo

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

— Greta Garbo