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

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

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.

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

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

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.