Quotes by Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

[When asked if she believed in “women’s lib”:] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

Believe

Ifs

Looks

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.

Heartless

Men

Want

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

Fake People

Happiness

Smile

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.

Mean

Movie

Stars

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Enough

Honest

This Life

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

Garbo

Knows

Littles

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

Cinema

Faces

Flesh

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side – and don’t be stinchy, beby.

Ale

Book

Sides

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.

Eye

Moments

Want

I always look well when I’m near death.

Looks

Near Death

Wells

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Cooks

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Dangerous

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Eye

Faces

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Quotes by Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

[When asked if she believed in “women’s lib”:] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

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.

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

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.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side – and don’t be stinchy, beby.

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.

I always look well when I’m near death.

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