Greta Garbo Quotes

• One day, there’s a hand that goes over the face and changes it. You look like an apple that isn’t young anymore.

  Greta Garbo

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

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

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• This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

  Greta Garbo

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

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• There is no one who would have me – I can’t cook.

   

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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.

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

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

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

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

  Greta Garbo

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

  Greta Garbo

• If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

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

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• I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

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• I want to be alone.

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• I smoke all the time, one after the other.

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Greta Garbo (24)

Birth:	18th September, 1905
Death:	15th April, 1990
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Actress

About

Greta Garbo was a Swedish/American film actress and an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances." She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina and Camille. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

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