"I was born. I had a mother and father. I lived in a house. I went to school. What does it matter?" —Garbo

"I am thinking of being grown up and becoming an actress." —Garbo, age 5

"I tank I go home now." —Garbo, after MGM negotiations problems

"It was the damnedest thing you ever saw.It was the sort of thing Elinor Glyn used to write about. When they got into that first love scene . . . nobody was even there. Those two were alone in a world of their own. It seemed like an intrusion to yell 'cut!' I used to just motion the crew over to another part of the set and let them finish what they were doing." —Clarence Brown, the director of The Flesh and the Devil, speaking about Garbo and Jon Gilbert

"Gimme a visky, ginger ale on the side—and don't be stingy, baby." —Garbo's first words on screen

"I'm a woman who's unfaithful to a million men." —Garbo on her fame

"I tried to be Swedish, but it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a comprise. There is no time for art." —Garbo on Hollywood

"Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out my purse and shot him, because I'm the only person who would not have been searched." —Garbo on her martyr plan to assasinate Hitler

"Sometimes I put on my coat at 10 a.m. and follow people. I just go where they're going—I mill around." —Garbo on her New York City habits

"Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft. I cannot analyse this woman's acting. I only know that no one else so effectively worked in front of a camera." —Bette Davis