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 always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.
I want to be left alone.
I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'
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.
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.
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.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
It's not just her face, which is gorgeous. It's that she's attractive in a much fuller way than that.
Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough
This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.
If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
If you are confirmed, you will essentially disappear from public view. This hearing will, in some ways, be the last time that the nation will see you at work.