Top 30 G Garbo Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About G Garbo

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

Clare Boothe Luce

#2. They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo.

Suzanne Stroh

#3. I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

Greta Garbo

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I have made enough faces.

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

#8. 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

#9. I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

Tabatha Coffey

#10. Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

Greta Garbo

#11. "I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

W.C. Sellar

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

Greta Garbo

#13. My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.

Janet Fitch

#14. 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

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

Greta Garbo

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

Greta Garbo

#17. I never met a man I could marry.

Greta Garbo

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

Joan Rivers

#19. The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through so much, and the camera gets so close to her face. That really sticks out for me.

James Gray

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

Greta Garbo

#21. 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

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

Greta Garbo

#23. I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

Greta Garbo

#24. I always look well when I'm near death.

Greta Garbo

#25. 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