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.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

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.

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.

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.