Greta Garbo Quotes - Page 2

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• It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

  Greta Garbo

  Beautiful, Car, Ugly

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

  Greta Garbo

  Strong, Wish

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Stupid, Silly, Men

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

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

  Greta Garbo

  People, Dangerous

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• I never met a man I could marry.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Mets

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

  Greta Garbo

  Tired, America, Nervous

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

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