Best 35 quotes of Greta Garbo on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

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.

I always look well when I'm near death.

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

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.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

I have made enough faces.

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

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

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

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.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

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.

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 want to be left alone.

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.

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.

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.

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

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

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

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.

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

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