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

"I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that?"

"I t'ank I go home."

"Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest e…"

"Today this young woman —The Garbo as she is known — is the most glamorous figure in the whole world; there is no one …"

"Every man's harmless fantasy mistress. By being worshiped by the entire world she gave you the feeling that if your i…"

"Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft. I cannot analyze this woman's acting. I only know th…"

"Garbo is lonely. She always has been and she always will be. She lives in the core of a vast aching aloneness. She is…"

"We knew each other. We talked. We passed each other going to the set of our own films. We were doing our jobs. We had…"

"You're the purple light of a summer night in Spain. You're the National Gallery; you're Garbo's Salary; you're cellop…"