Greta Garbo Quotes

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• Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

  Greta Garbo

  Reality, Would Be, Wonderful

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

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• I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

  Greta Garbo

  Sea, Yearning, Yearning For Something

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  I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

  Greta Garbo

  Funny Love, Freedom, Differences

  Quoted in John Bainbridge, Garbo (1955)

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

  Greta Garbo

  Honest, Enough, This Life

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  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

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

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  Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

  Greta Garbo

  Longing, Within Reach, Knows

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

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• 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

  War, Taken, Writing

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  There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

  Greta Garbo

  Cooks, I Can

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

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• I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

  Greta Garbo

  Boredom, Bored, Being Bored

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

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  Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

  Greta Garbo

  Happiness, Smile, Fake People

  Raymond Daum, Raymond W. Daum, Greta Garbo (1992). “Walking with Garbo: conversations and recollections”, Perennial

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• 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

  Doors, People, Secret

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• 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

  Men, Heartless, Want

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

  Greta Garbo

  Good Friend, Married, Partners

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

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

  Greta Garbo

  Life, Movie, Two

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• Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.

  Greta Garbo

  Gay, Sick, Care

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

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• It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

  Greta Garbo

  Paris, Making Love, Midnight

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Ninotchka", 1939.

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• 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

  Mean, People, Because I Can

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• There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

  Greta Garbo

  Law, Our Actions, Plans

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

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• 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

  Love Is, Ordinary, Chemistry

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Long

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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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• 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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• 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 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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