Top 78 Garbo's Quotes
#1. Bartender! Vring me some viskey with chincher ale on de side & don't be stingy, baby. (Garbo's first words in a talking picture)
Greta Garbo
#2. 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
#3. I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
Greta Garbo
#4. The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Ethel Barrymore
#5. I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'
Greta Garbo
#6. If you're going to die on screen, you've got to be strong and in good health.
Greta Garbo
#7. It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Greta Garbo
#8. 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
#9. Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
Luise Rainer
#10. 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
#11. I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.
Greta Garbo
#12. 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
#13. GIVE ME A WHISKEY...GINGER ALE ON THE SIDE...AND DONT BE STINGY BABY
Garbo
#14. I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
Greta Garbo
#15. This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.
Greta Garbo
#16. 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
#17. Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.
Greta Garbo
#19. 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
#20. All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.
Greta Garbo
#21. They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo.
Suzanne Stroh
#22. 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
#23. I smoke all the time, one after the other.
Greta Garbo
#24. There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Greta Garbo
#25. The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.
Judy Holliday
#26. I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.
Greta Garbo
#27. Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo
#28. I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo
#29. I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
Greta Garbo
#30. 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
#31. What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan
#32. Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.
Greta Garbo
#33. You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
Lee Remick
#34. Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
Agatha Christie
#35. There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.
Greta Garbo
#37. It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
Greta Garbo
#38. Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
Greta Garbo
#39. I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.
Mary Astor
#40. I don't like to talk to people, because I can't express myself satisfactorily. I don't say the things I mean.
Greta Garbo
#41. I always look well when I'm near death.
Greta Garbo
#42. If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
Greta Garbo
#43. Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
Clare Boothe Luce
#45. I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
Joan Rivers
#46. 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
#47. [When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.
Greta Garbo
#48. 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
#49. My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
Greta Garbo
#50. I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.
Greta Garbo
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.
Greta Garbo
#54. There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!
Henri Langlois
#55. I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Greta Garbo
#56. Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
Greta Garbo
#57. If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
Greta Garbo
#58. When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
Greta Garbo
#59. Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
Greta Garbo
#60. 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
#61. The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.
Greta Garbo
#62. Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Greta Garbo
#63. 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
#64. I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.
Greta Garbo
#65. I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.
Greta Garbo
#66. Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Greta Garbo
#67. Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.
Greta Garbo
#68. 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
#69. I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!
Greta Garbo
#70. I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free - I had to work hard.
Greta Garbo
#72. You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Greta Garbo
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.
Greta Garbo
#77. Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.
Greta Garbo
#78. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
