Author: Greta Garbo

Quotes

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

- Greta Garbo

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

- Greta Garbo

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.

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.

- Greta Garbo

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

- Greta Garbo

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

- Greta Garbo

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

- Greta Garbo

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

- Greta Garbo

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.

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.

- Greta Garbo

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

- Greta Garbo

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