90 Quotes by 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.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

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.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.

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

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.

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

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.