Garbo Quotes

• 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.

  Greta Garbo

  Children, Husband, Men

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• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Ideas, Acting, Events

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

  Greta Garbo

  Littles, Knows

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• You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.

  Lee Remick

  Feet, Bigs, Compare

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• What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Love, Art, Women

  Curtains pt. 2 (1961)

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• She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

  Kim Carnes

  Eye, Expression, Sigh

  Song: Bette Davis Eyes, Album: Mistaken Identity, 1981

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

  Greta Garbo

  Fog, London, Mystery

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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.

  Greta Garbo

  Cinema, Flesh, Faces

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

  Henri Langlois

  Brooks

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• Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Life, Zoos, Women

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

  Billy Wilder

  Mean, Fabulous, Towns

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• 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

  Simple, Artist, Ideas

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Art, Pay, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.

  Michael Flutie

  Eye, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• "I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

  W. C. Sellar

  Nature, Want, Lawns

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• I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

  Robert De Niro

  Mean, Actors, Actresses

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• It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now.

  Giovanna Cau

  Beautiful, Queens, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Support, Comedy

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• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

  John Lennon

  Hero, People, Appreciate

  Playboy interview, January 1981.

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• After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

  Billy Wilder

  Girl, Stars, Real

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• 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 face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

  Roland Barthes

  Order, Ideas, Events

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Thinking, Mind, Example

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