I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word. Greta Garbo More Quotes by Greta Garbo More Quotes From Greta Garbo It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. Greta Garbo paris making-love midnight I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself. Greta Garbo movie life two 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 secret doors people 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. Greta Garbo movie stars mean I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream. Greta Garbo soap cake monk 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 moments eye want 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. Greta Garbo married empowerment want I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures. Greta Garbo stupid silly men 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 ugly car beautiful I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' Greta Garbo being-alone want said 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 our-love heart world I always look well when I'm near death. Greta Garbo near-death wells looks I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know. Greta Garbo sincere this-world world I don't like writers. They're dangerous people. Greta Garbo dangerous people I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me. Greta Garbo risk should men 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. Greta Garbo cinema flesh faces I never met a man I could marry. Greta Garbo mets men 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. Greta Garbo movie office art Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby. Greta Garbo ale sides book Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare. Greta Garbo garbo knows littles