Greta Garbo

"I believe that we are all just trying to leave something beautiful behind."

"The world needs less talking and more listening."

"I have found that the most important things cannot be said, only felt."

"I prefer to be remembered as someone who tried than someone who succeeded."

"True freedom is having nothing to lose and everything to gain."

"I have learned that the best life is the one you don't ask for permission to live."

"I believe in the power of small moments over grand gestures."

"The only real failure is the failure to be true to yourself."

"I prefer solitude with myself to togetherness with others."

"I have found that mystery is the greatest gift we can give each other."

"Beauty fades, but grace is eternal."

"I believe that life is the greatest performance art."

"I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my nerves."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people."

"I want to be left alone, but I also want to be loved—this is the eternal paradox."

"Legends are made, not born. I chose to become what people needed me to be."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal; it is the performance itself."

"I learned early that the only way to survive in this industry was to care deeply about the work, not the applause."

"The most dangerous thing is to become comfortable with your own mythology."

"I have always believed that style is more important than fashion; substance more important than appearance."

"To create is to suffer. To withhold creation is a slower suffering."

"People forget that behind the camera, I was just a woman trying to find her way."

"The greatest performance is the one that reveals nothing but appears to reveal everything."

"I have loved, and I have lost, and in losing I found myself."

"Fear is the architect of ambition. Master it, and you master destiny."

"Beauty fades, but intelligence endures. I chose to cultivate both."

"The world expects you to perform constantly. Real freedom is knowing when not to."

"I did not retreat from the world; I advanced into myself."

"Every role taught me that human nature is infinitely contradictory and eternally fascinating."

"Time is the only honest critic of a life well-lived."