Greta Garbo Quotes

I want to be left alone.

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

I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

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.

I’ve always wanted two lives – one for the movies, one for myself.

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

I’m a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

I always look well when I’m near death.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

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.