I’ve always wanted two lives–one for the movies, one for myself. — Greta Garbo

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

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. — Greta Garbo

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life. — Greta Garbo

You don’t have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. — Greta Garbo

I’m a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me. — Greta Garbo

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. — Greta Garbo

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference. — Greta Garbo

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single. — Greta Garbo

I smoke all the time, one after the other. — Greta Garbo

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

I want to be left alone. — Greta Garbo

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free–I had to work hard. — Greta Garbo

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean. — Greta Garbo

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

When asked if she believed in ‘women’s lib’:] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like. — Greta Garbo

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. — Greta Garbo

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? — Greta Garbo

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream. — Greta Garbo

It’s midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. — Greta Garbo

I’m afraid of NOTHING except being bored! — Greta Garbo

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. — Greta Garbo

If you’re going to die on screen, you’ve got to be strong and in good health. — Greta Garbo

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. — Greta Garbo

Why should you care for a woman like me? I’m always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay. — Greta Garbo

There is no one who would have me–I can’t cook. — Greta Garbo

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is. — Greta Garbo

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word. — Greta Garbo

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise. — Greta Garbo

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong. — Greta Garbo

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. — Greta Garbo

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I. — Greta Garbo