Greta Garbo quotes

Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born actress who became one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars during the silent and early sound film eras. Her enigmatic presence and remarkable talent captivated audiences worldwide. She remains a legendary figure, celebrated for both her artistic achievements and her mysterious personal life. Here are 34 of her quotes:

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

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

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

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

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

Greta Garbo

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

Greta Garbo

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.

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

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

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

Greta Garbo

Every one of us lives his life just once if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Greta Garbo