G Garbo Quotes & Sayings

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. — Agatha Christie

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. — 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 that matters is what they call box office. — Greta Garbo

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

GIVE ME A WHISKEY...GINGER ALE ON THE SIDE...AND DONT BE STINGY BABY — Garbo

I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge. — Kelly Rutherford

Both Dietrich and Garbo occasionally came to Boaty's, the latter always escorted by Cecil Beaton, whom I'd met when he photographed me for Boaty's magazine (an overheard exchange between these two: Beaton, "The most distressing fact of growing older is that I find my private parts are shrinking." Garbo, after a mournful pause, "Ah, if only I could say the same.") — Truman Capote

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

I want to be left alone. — Greta Garbo

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

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both". — Joan Crawford

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

him. I also recall the great poster for Ana Christie with Greta Garbo, based on a Eugene O'Neill play. 'Garbo Talks' it said. In that film, a series of inns were shown to stimulate our expectations, then there was mist, then a horse in the mist, then finally a woman arrived from Sweden and walked across the stage. Ferrari. Was it Greta Garbo? Borges. Yes, she arrived at the bar and slowly strolled past a very long table. We all expected her to talk - we were waiting to hear Greta Garbo's voice, her never-heard-before voice. What we did hear was a hoarse voice that said, 'Give me a whisky.' It made us shiver with emotion. That was her first talkie. — Jorge Luis Borges

The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent. — Judy Holliday

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough. — Greta Garbo

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

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word. — Greta Garbo

I don't like to talk to people, because I can't express myself satisfactorily. I don't say the things I mean. — Greta Garbo

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I. — Greta Garbo

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

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

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. — Greta Garbo

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

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

The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale. — Helen Hayes

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' — Greta Garbo

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. — Greta Garbo

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself. — Greta Garbo

The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through so much, and the camera gets so close to her face. That really sticks out for me. — James Gray