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 live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.
Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.
I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.
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.
If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
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.
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
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.
Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
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.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.