Frasi di Greta Garbo

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Greta Garbo

Data di nascita: 18. Settembre 1905
Data di morte: 15. Aprile 1990

Greta Garbo, nome d'arte di Greta Lovisa Gustafsson , è stata un'attrice svedese, fra le più celebri di tutti i tempi.

Grazie al suo talento fu apprezzata in pellicole come Grand Hotel, La regina Cristina o Anna Karenina, attrice di punta della Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sedusse generazioni di appassionati di cinema con il suo carisma e il suo fascino misterioso. Per la sua bellezza e per la indiscussa bravura, venne soprannominata la Divina.

L'American Film Institute ha inserito la Garbo al quinto posto tra le più grandi star della storia del cinema.

Foto: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (work for hire), http://missdandy.tumblr.com/post/4238273275 at http://missdandy.tumblr.com/page/78 (also available at http://www.garboforever.com/Bilder/Film-Pic/Anna_Karenina/Anna_Karenina-036.jpg ) / Public domain

Frasi Greta Garbo

„Nessuno la vedrà mai; è terribilmente costosa e nessuno saprà mai che è di seta. Lo saprò io, e camminerò in modo diverso.“

— Greta Garbo

„Sono una donna che è stata infedele a milioni di uomini.“

— Greta Garbo

„Sono sempre stata incline alla malinconia, anche quando andavo a scuola preferivo sempre starmene da sola.“

— Greta Garbo

Origine: Citato in Malcolm Folley, Borg vs. McEnroe. la più grande rivalità del tennis moderno, traduzione di Chiara Basso, Effepi Libri, 2006, p. 54 http://books.google.it/books?id=_ArUWRRxCuUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA54, ISBN 0-7553-1360-7

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

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— Greta Garbo

Quoted in John Bainbridge, Garbo (1955)
As the Russian ballerina Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932), she had said "I want to be alone." These words had become associated with Garbo herself in the public imagination.

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

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— Greta Garbo

Screen Secrets: Greta Garbo Breaks her Silence (1928)

„I t'ank I go home.“

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— Greta Garbo

Allegedly said on a movie set, after a director had filmed repeated takes of Garbo jumping into icy cold water, and wanted to film yet another take. Reported Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 30-31.
Misattributed

„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 great mutual respect.“

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— Greta Garbo

Lillian Gish

„Today this young woman -The Garbo as she is known - is the most glamorous figure in the whole world; there is no one with a more magnetic, romantic or exotic personality, there never has been a film star with so wide an appeal… Greta Garbo is Queen of Hollywood, her salary is fabulous, her word law. She has pointed features in a round face, her mouth is wide and knife-like. Her teeth are large and square and like evenly matched pearls; her eyes are pale, with lashes so long that when she lowers her lids they strike her cheeks; her complexion is of an unearthly whiteness and so delicate that she looks to have one layer of skin less than other people, and the suspicion of a frown is sooner perceptible.“

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— Greta Garbo

Cecil Beaton, Book of Beauty (1930)
Origine: http://www.garboforever.com/Beatons_Book_of_Beauty.htm

„Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.“

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— Greta Garbo

Roland Barthes, "The Face of Garbo," Mythologies (1957), trans. Annette Lavers [Farrar, Straus, 1986, ISBN 0-374-52150-6], p. 56