I want to be alone.

Why haven’t I got a husband and children?” mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, “I never met a man I could marry.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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