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“I have a great longing for trousers, and if I ask you in time maybe you can put in a little sequence with the trousers? Maybe her dressed as soldier, going to Napoleon's tent at night or something. I'm sorry not to contribute anything more but it is merely to remind you about the trousers. Trousers - girls in trousers. Pressed trousers. Girls. Trousers, trousers.”

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Book:Garbo

Source: Garbo

“I don’t think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.”

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Book:A life on film

Source: A life on film

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

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Author:Lee Remick

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

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Author:Kim Carnes

“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.”

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Author:Giovanna Cau

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

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Author:Greta Garbo

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

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Author:Greta Garbo

“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.”

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Author:Greta Garbo

“Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.”

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Author:Billy Wilder

“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".”

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Author:Joan Crawford

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

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

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Author:Ethel Barrymore

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

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Author:Robert De Niro

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

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Author:Joan Rivers

“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.”

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Book:Mythologies

Source: Mythologies

“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.”

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Author:Greta Garbo

“"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.”

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Author:W. C. Sellar

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

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Author:Kenneth Tynan

“After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.”

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

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Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.”

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Author:John Lennon