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
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.
I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.
Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.
Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.
I smoke all the time, one after the other.
The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.