Greta Garbo Quotes
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I want to be left alone.
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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.
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Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.
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[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.
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I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.
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Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
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The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.
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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.
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I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
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Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.
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Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.
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I have made enough faces.
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There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.
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I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'
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I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
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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.
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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.
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Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
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There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
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I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.
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I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.
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When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
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I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
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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.
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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.
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Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
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