Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo, born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress and an international star and icon during the 1920s and 1930s. 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." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 September 1905
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.
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.
I want to be left alone.
Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.
If you’re going to die on screen, you’ve got to be strong and in good health.
I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.
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.
I have made enough faces.
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.
I never met a man I could marry.
I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'