Quotes from Greta Garbo

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

If you're going to die on screen, you've got to be strong and in good health.

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

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

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.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

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 was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

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

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

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.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

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

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.

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.