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I want to be alone.
I want to be left alone.
I have made enough faces.
I never met a man I could marry.
I always look well when I'm near death.
I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'
I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!
I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.
I smoke all the time, one after the other.
I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.
There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.
This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.
The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.
I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.
I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.
If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.
Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.
If you’re going to die on screen, you’ve got to be strong and in good health.
I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.
Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.