Greta Garbo

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

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

I want to be alone.

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.

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

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

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

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

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.

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.