When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

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

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.

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.

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.