Garbo Quotes

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There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!

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".

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

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.

"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.