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Quotes About Garbo

I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.
~ Marion Cotillard
I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
~ Robert De Niro
He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any of them, nor even, at the end, to complete an act of contrition. He had not even had time to be disappointed in the Garbo picture which disappointed all Madrid for a week. ( The Capital of the World )
~ Ernest Hemingway
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.
~ Roland Barthes
Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.
~ Judy Holliday
The evidence on enemy intelligence officers and agents grew to more than twenty volumes, a veritable who's who of German spying. The Garbo case alone would swell to twenty-one files, more than a million pieces of paper.
~ Ben Macintyre
To MGM fell the thankless task of policing the Garbo name and its commercial use. Several years earlier, J. Robert Rubin in MGM's New York office was panicked to learn of a trademarked product called Garbo - which turned out to be a new fangled garbage unit. The final cable from headquarters in Culver City concluded, 'It would be fairly hard to stop the word Garbo in connection with a refuse container. It does not seem anyone is going to confuse the two.
~ Barry Paris
I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge.
~ Kelly Rutherford
Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day he includes the whole of the statement Pujol supposedly gave to the tribunal but
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