Acting Quote by Ethel Barrymore

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the…

— Roland Barthes

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

— Greta Garbo

There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!

— Henri Langlois

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

— Manolo Blahnik

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

— Robert Osborne

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Garbo’s role may lack persuasion today; but from the odious butcher insulting and taunting the food queues at his shop, refusing meat to women…

— Adam Fergusson

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

— Katharine Hepburn

She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B

— Dorothy Parker

There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when…

— Susanna Clarke

'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent people from…

— John Cassavetes