“Bartender! Vring me some viskey with chincher ale on de side & don't be stingy, baby. (Garbo's first words in a talking picture)”

“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.”

“There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”

“I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.”

“Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.”

“Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.”

“How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.”