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.
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.
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.'
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.
I smoke all the time, one after the other.
It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.