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I never said, "I want to be alone." I only said, "I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo ( September 18 , 1905 – April 15 , 1990 ), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish born actress and Hollywood icon.
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I never said, "I want to be alone." I only said, "I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.
Quoted in John Bainbridge, Garbo (1955)
As the Russian ballerina Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932), she had said "I want to be alone." These words had become associated with Garbo herself in the public imagination.
I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that?
Screen Secrets: Greta Garbo Breaks her Silence (1928)
Misattributed[ edit ]
I t'ank I go home.
Allegedly said on a movie set, after a director had filmed repeated takes of Garbo jumping into icy cold water, and wanted to film yet another take. Reported Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 30-31.
About Greta Garbo[ edit ]
Every man's harmless fantasy mistress. By being worshiped by the entire world she gave you the feeling that if your imagination had to sin, it can at least congratulate itself on its impeccable taste.
Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft. I cannot analyze this woman's acting. I only know that no one else so effectively worked in front of a camera.
Bette Davis , in The Lonely Life : An Autobiography‎ (1962), p. 116
She is the most miraculous blend of personality and sheer dramatic talent that the screen has ever known and her presence in The Painted Veil immediately makes it one of the season's cinema events.
Andre Sennwald, in The New York Times (1934), as quoted in The Films of Greta Garbo (1963) by Michael Conway, Dion McGregor and Mark Ricci, p. 126
You're the purple light of a summer night in Spain. You're the National Gallery; you're Garbo's Salary; you're cellophane!