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
It's not just her face, which is gorgeous. It's that she's attractive in a much fuller way than that.
Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough
There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
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 cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.
I always look well when I'm near death.
Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.
I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
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.