Greta Garbo movie quotes

“- Grusinskaya: Who are you?
- Baron Felix von Geigern: Someone who could love you, that's all. Someone who's forgotten everything else but you.”
Greta Garbo - Grusinskaya
John Barrymore - Baron Felix von Geigern

“This man is very old. You shouldn't make him work. He looks sad. Do you whip him? The day will come when you'll be free. Go to bed, little father.”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“- Anna Karenina: There is no life for me without my child. To leave him would be infamous and base. I couldn't. And you know I couldn't.
- Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin: Very well. I can assume, then, that you will never again jeopardize my honor.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“- Lt. Alexis Rosanoff: I love you as one adores sacred things.
- Mata Hari: What sacred things?
- Lt. Alexis Rosanoff: God, Country, Honour... you.
- Mata Hari: I come last?”
Ramon Novarro - Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
Greta Garbo - Mata Hari

“I should hate to see our country endangered by my underwear.”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“I like China very much. I like America too. I like all the places I haven't been.”
Greta Garbo - Katrin

“You were going on as if one of you had to own me. But, nobody owns me, see; excepting, myself. I'll do what I please and no man, I don't give a darn who he is, can tell me what to do.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Christie

“Don't make an issue of my womanhood.”
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“What people you Russians are. What charming savages.”

Greta Garbo - Mata Hari

“- Lt. Alexis Rosanoff: Courage. Courage, my dear. Be brave.
- Mata Hari: Goodbye.”
Ramon Novarro - Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
Greta Garbo - Mata Hari

“Right now you and I are closer than we ever were... and further apart.”

Greta Garbo - Katrin

“Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological - or, shall we say, chemical - process. A lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“I ain't expecting much from him. Give you a kick when you're down, that's what all men do. And I don't suppose he'll turn out no better than the rest.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Christie

“- Anna Karenina: Then you will not give me a divorce?
- Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin: Never. Why should I? To permit you to legalize a sin? To justify your conduct and his? Never.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“You know, Dolly, men like Stiva aren't really conscious of deception at all. They put their wives and homes in one compartment... and these other women into another.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina

“- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: Why should you carry other people's bags?
- Porter: Well, that's my business, Madame.
- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: That's no business. That's social injustice.
- Porter: That depends on the tip.”
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: Raw beets and carrots.
- Pere Mathieu - Cafe Owner: Madame, this is a restaurant, not a meadow.”
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka
Charles Judels - Pere Mathieu - Cafe Owner

“- Count Leon d'Algout: You must forgive me when I seem a little old-fashioned. After all, I'm just a poor bourgeois.
- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: It's never too late to change. I used to belong to the petite bourgeoisie myself.”
Melvyn Douglas - Count Leon d'Algout
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“I'm so happy, I'm so happy! Nobody can be so happy without being punished.”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka