Greta Garbo Quotes - Page 2

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• If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

  Greta Garbo

  Single, Blessed, Married

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

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

  Greta Garbo

  Cake, Soap, Monk

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

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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.

  Greta Garbo

  Movie, Art, Office

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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.

  Greta Garbo

  Empowerment, Want, Married

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

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

  Greta Garbo

  Country, Thinking, Years

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

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• I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

  Greta Garbo

  Hard Work, Wanted, Hard

  Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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• I always look well when I'm near death.

  Greta Garbo

  Looks, Near Death, Wells

  "Fictional character: Marguerite Gautier". "Camille", www.imdb.com. 1936.

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• I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

  Greta Garbo

  People, Dangerous

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• I never met a man I could marry.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Mets

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• I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Risk, Should

  "Fictional character: Marguerite". "Camille", 1936.

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

  Greta Garbo

  Being Alone, Want, Said

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

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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.

  Greta Garbo

  Heart, World, Our Love

  "Fictional character: Marguerite". "Camille", 1936.

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• 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

  Eye, Want, Moments

  "Fictional character: Marguerite". "Camille", 1936.

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• I have made enough faces.

  Greta Garbo

  Retirement, Faces, Enough

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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.

  Greta Garbo

  Movie, Stars, Mean

  Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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• Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

  Greta Garbo

  Book, Sides, Ale

  Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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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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• [When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

  Greta Garbo

  Believe, Looks, Ifs

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• When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

  Greta Garbo

  Death, Long, Dying

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

  Greta Garbo

  Fall, Thinking, Actresses

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

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

  Greta Garbo

  Littles, Garbo, Knows

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• If you’re going to die on screen, you’ve got to be strong and in good health.

  Greta Garbo

  Strong, Good Health, Dies

  Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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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.

  Greta Garbo

  Children, Husband, Men

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

  Greta Garbo

  Fog, London, Mystery

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• I smoke all the time, one after the other.

  Greta Garbo

  Smoke

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

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