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 only said, 'I want to be left alone.'
it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.
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.
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.
I smoke all the time, one after the other.
The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.
Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.
It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
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.
I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.
Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
If you’re going to die on screen, you’ve got to be strong and in good health.
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.
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.