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
I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.
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.
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.
Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
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.
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 ...
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
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.
I always look well when I'm near death.
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.
It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!