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"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo. -- W. C. Sellar
She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes. -- Kim Carnes
You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too. -- Lee Remick
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. -- Ethel Barrymore
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. -- Kenneth Tynan
There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks! -- Henri Langlois
Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo. -- Clare Boothe Luce
I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her. -- Joan Rivers
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
There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both". -- Joan Crawford
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
The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale. -- Helen Hayes
The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog. -- Greta Garbo
Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare. -- Greta Garbo
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. -- Greta Garbo
My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell. -- Janet Fitch
The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through so much, and the camera gets so close to her face. That really sticks out for me. -- James Gray
It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now. -- Giovanna Cau
There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor. -- Michael Flutie
I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible. -- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
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

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