Top 100 Greta Quotes
#1. Greta, Greta, he whispered, eyes shut in rapture, on thy breast I write my Edda, at thy feet I lay the keys of Niflheim, by thy leave alone, I live, and breathe, and die.
Catherynne M Valente
#2. That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours
Carol Rifka Brunt
#3. I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.
Trey Gowdy
#4. I didn't say anything. Greta always knew how to make me lose my words.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
Joan Rivers
#8. But it's my face. Mine and Greta's. We don't belong to everybody.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#9. Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
Clare Boothe Luce
#10. 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
#12. Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#13. 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
#14. What are you reading?" " 'Ryder' by Greta Maloney," he said, closing the book and placing it back into his rucksack. "Any good?" I asked, wanting to find another subject to talk about other than my nightmare. "It's creepy," he smiled at me.
Tim O'Rourke
#15. You can't change laws without first changing human nature.'
-Nurse Greta
You can't change human nature without first changing the law.'
-Nurse Yvonne
Neal Shusterman
#16. I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider's web. That's because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way she says things.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#17. For Peter, being with Greta was like being wrapped in a warm towel after emerging cold and shivering from the ocean.
Molly Ringwald
#18. Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams.
Elan Mastai
#19. Jamie cocked her head, looking at Greta curiously. "You know, I used to think you were snarling at me, but now I see that . . . it's actually your face.
Suzanne Wright
#20. 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
#21. Beside me, Eric throws Greta's tennis ball far over the scrub of the land. In the coming dark, his features are blurred. He could be anyone, and so could I.
Jodi Picoult
#22. Greta: At one point, you practically stalked poor Dante.
Jamie: Stalked? No, I just watched him. At night. From behind a bush. Using night-vision googles.
Suzanne Wrightt
#23. I ... Why do you want me to?"
There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness, and then she said, "Why wouldn't I want you to?"
Because you hate me, I thought, but I didn't say it.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#24. Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?"
"Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.
David Ebershoff
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.
Luise Rainer
#28. 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
#29. These people - the Williamses - were not to be taken lightly. Least of all, Greta Williams.
E.M. Kaplan
#30. And wasn't that the inexhaustible struggle for Greta? Her perpetual need to be alone but always loved, and in love.
David Ebershoff
#31. Jan knew it was pointless to ponder the rights and wrongs of Greta's decision, for the decision had been made and they were on their way to a foreign city. He would just have to make the best of things, for all their sakes. He tried to turn his attention to more practical matters, ...
Joanne Owen
#32. Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
Agatha Christie
#33. You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
Lee Remick
#34. There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#35. My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
Brit Hume
#36. Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
Walter Scott
#37. We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind
David Coleman
#38. A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
Greta Scacchi
#39. There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.
Greta Gerwig
#40. Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
Greta Garbo
#41. Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.
Greta Gerwig
#42. When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
Greta Garbo
#43. If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
Greta Garbo
#44. Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
Greta Garbo
#45. No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.
Greta Van Susteren
#46. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.
Greta Gerwig
#47. I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Greta Garbo
#48. I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.
Greta Gerwig
#49. I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.
Greta Gerwig
#50. I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.
Greta Gerwig
#51. Atheists' anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.
Greta Christina
#52. I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.
Greta Garbo
#53. 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
#54. I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.
Greta Gerwig
#55. I always look well when I'm near death.
Greta Garbo
#56. I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.
Greta Garbo
#57. Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.
Greta Gerwig
#58. Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.
Greta Gerwig
#59. My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
Greta Garbo
#60. I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.
Greta Van Susteren
#61. I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.
Greta Gerwig
#62. This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
It was a goodbye kiss.
Penelope Ward
#63. [When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.
Greta Garbo
#65. In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.
Greta Gerwig
#66. A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some emotional kindling that you didn't even know you had stored. It awakens you to a possibility for the future - be it hope or excitement - that you never knew was possible.
Greta Salpeter
#68. If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.
Greta Christina
#71. You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.
Greta Scacchi
#72. President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?
Greta Van Susteren
#73. If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.
Greta Gerwig
#74. You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.
Greta Gerwig
#75. Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.
Greta Van Susteren
#76. I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.
Greta Salpeter
#77. It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.
Greta Scacchi
#78. If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
Greta Garbo
#79. 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
#80. Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.
Greta Scacchi
#81. I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.
Greta Scacchi
#82. Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.
Greta Garbo
#83. Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.
Greta Gerwig
#84. In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.
Greta Scacchi
#85. Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.
Greta Garbo
#86. I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.
Greta Gerwig
#87. 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
#88. You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Greta Garbo
#89. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.
Greta Salpeter
#91. I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.
Greta Gerwig
#92. I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
Greta Scacchi
#93. 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
#94. I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
Greta Scacchi
#95. Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
Greta Scacchi
#96. Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.
Greta Van Susteren
#97. I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!
Greta Garbo
#99. Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels as if the performer is the only person who could bring it to life.
Greta Salpeter
#100. Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
Greta Scacchi
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