Greta Garbo quotes - page 2

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:

I t'ank I go home.

Greta Garbo

We knew each other. We talked. We passed each other going to the set of our own films. We were doing our jobs. We had great mutual respect.

Greta Garbo

Today this young woman -The Garbo as she is known - is the most glamorous figure in the whole world; there is no one with a more magnetic, romantic or exotic personality, there never has been a film star with so wide an appeal... Greta Garbo is Queen of Hollywood, her salary is fabulous, her word law. She has pointed features in a round face, her mouth is wide and knife-like. Her teeth are large and square and like evenly matched pearls; her eyes are pale, with lashes so long that when she lowers her lids they strike her cheeks; her complexion is of an unearthly whiteness and so delicate that she looks to have one layer of skin less than other people, and the suspicion of a frown is sooner perceptible.

Greta Garbo

Garbo is lonely. She always has been and she always will be. She lives in the core of a vast aching aloneness. She is a great artist, but it is both her supreme glory and her supreme tragedy that art is to her the only reality. The figures of living men and women, the events of everyday existence, move about her, shadowy, unsubstantial. It is only when she breathes the breath of life into a part, clothes with her own flesh and blood the concept of a playwright, that she herself is fully awake, fully alive.

Greta Garbo

I want to be alone.

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

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

Greta Garbo