Garbos encounters or quotes (interesting ones)

[Lorna]

I know there are a lot of websites with standard quotes from Garbo. However, there are quite a lot amusing ones not mentioned. I decided to make a thread of those. Everyone please add on.

......A less playfull response was delivered to writer Thyra Samter Winslow, who was lunching one day with reporter Radie Harris at a chic Manhattan restaurant when she spotted Garbo at a corner table. Winslow sprinted over to Garbo's table, noisily introduced herself and gushed:"Oh, Miss Garbo, I've always wanted to meet you, and now, at last, I can tell all my friends I finally did!" Garbo gave her a frosty stare and corrected, "You can tell all your friends it was an accident."
;D ;D ;D ;D

[JOHN]

Great Topic;)


I still like this one ,a friend of mine sent to me some time ago;)




[glow=red,2,300]This is part of an interview made to Robert De Niro in 1995.

QUESTION: The myths of your life? Which are the actors you like the best ?
ANSWER: I always remember Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean. Greta Garbo was a wonderful actress. The most interesting actress I have ever seen.
QUESTION: Many people say: " I'd like to be Robert De Niro ". And you, would you like to be someone else?
ANSWER: No, I don't know what to say... I think Greta Garbo was fantastic...
QUESTION: What makes her so unique?
ANSWER: It's difficult to reply to this question... even If I should know the answer. [/glow]

[david]

Hi Lorna, I really like her smart quote against the writer...."accident" that made the writer scared off....ha! Garbo scared them!!!! Garbo always stayed as Mysterious forever, amen! ;D

Actor Robert De Niro was so right that Garbo was really wonderful person!!! He did not know what to say about her unique at all....sure he's right for no answer at all....she was so unique and so hermit-about-town lady!!!! Wonderful articles! I like it, John!!!

[Lorna]

...One evening during a visit to Fire Island (a popular destination for gays in NY) Garbo was sitting with a friend on his veranda and watching the promenade of Fire Islanders along the boardwalk. After a long silence, Garbo ventured a rare pun:"Should be called "Royal Island". It's filled with kveens!"
;D ;D ;D

[david]

Lorna said:

...One evening during a visit to Fire Island (a popular destination for gays in NY) Garbo was sitting with a friend on his veranda and watching the promenade of Fire Islanders along the boardwalk. After a long silence, Garbo ventured a rare pun:"Should be called "Royal Island". It's filled with kveens!"
;D ;D ;D

Hi, Lorna....I love this Garbo's quote about "Royal Island" instead of "Fire Island" that really laugh it alot....so cute humor!!!! OOPS! I can't find a dictionary word "Kveens" means?? I try to figure what the word "Kveens" is!!!! Can you tell me what it means? I am not so intelligent guy!!! Ha! I think Sam Green was with Garbo in Fire Island!!!! Garbo was so charm and sweet to say such humor words!!!! I love Garbo alot! Thank for sharing the Garbo's words....keep more quote about her so I love to read it and laugh so heartily!!!! Thanks, dearly Lorna....Love in GG, D.L. ;D

[JOHN]

hahahaa..i´m wonderring too..dave;))

[david]

JOHN said:

hahahaa..i´m wonderring too..dave;))

OOOOOh my dearly John, yeeeeessssss....I wonder, too!!!! what is "Kveens"? Oh that's interesting the word! I hope Lorna knows what it means, dearly John!!!

[JOHN]

I think its a group of people....imigrants or something like that.

scandinavians....dunno..maybe Lorna can help,)

[Lorna]

hahahah...I thought you guys were playing with me. The word is actually "queens" and I believe most of you know what that means. The writer Barry Paris wrote it like that in his book because Garbo (and most of non-english speaking foreigners) have a tendency to substitute the "w" with "v" sound. Kinda like when she was quoted as saying "Go avay and stay avay!" (instead away). So it was spelled that way to more closely resemble what she said phonetically.
Anyvay ..hope this clears it out.
Also.."queen" is a term in english used for a girlie, femenine male homosexual.

[david]

Lorna said:

hahahah...I thought you guys were playing with me. The word is actually "queens" and I believe most of you know what that means. The writer Barry Paris wrote it like that in his book because Garbo (and most of non-english speaking foreigners) have a tendency to substitute the "w" with "v" sound. Kinda like when she was quoted as saying "Go avay and stay avay!" (instead away). So it was spelled that way to more closely resemble what she said phonetically.
Anyvay ..hope this clears it out.
Also.."queen" is a term in english used for a girlie, femenine male homosexual.

;D ha ha ha I don't play with you, I am sooo confused and serious about "Kveens" so I appreciated you alot for what it means....oooooh I see that means "Queens"....I finally understood what Garbo said "V" instead of "W" anyway....that was her naturally words! Fantastic words! Ha! OOOOOOOh sweet Garbo said that!!! I love what funny humor she thought alot of "Royal Island"....that was cool quote! Thanks, Lorna! Love ya, D.L.

[david]

Lorna, here's funny one: Levant later recalled dining at Le Pavillon when Garbo came in with a small dinner party. After a while: I called the headwaiter over and said, "Please tell Miss Garbo to stop staring at me."
He told her; she laughed and invited me to join her. ;D She was cheerfully drinking a martini with her escort. I explained I was leaving for Emporia, Kansas, to play a concert. "Why don't you come with me?" I added. "What time does the train arrive?" she inquired.

British actress Dana Wynter recalled a dinner party with Garbo in a smart Los Angeles restaurant, at the end of which: Stories were being told around the table and it was plainly her turn. There was a moment of silence, then she raised her head from the peach she was eating, and in her slow, dark, accented voice said: her blouse was open exposing her left breast. A man coming toward her (saw she was) unaware of the situation (and) said, 'Excuse me, madam, but do you realize that your left breast is revealed?' Startled, the woman looked down and exclaimed, 'Oh, my God----I must have left the baby on the bus.'" With that, she went back to her peach.

I love that funny Garbo said!!!! Sweet and Charm!!!! Love in GG, D.L.

[Lorna]

I know this one is a little vulgar, but it is really funny.

...In the Rose Cumming showrooms on East Fifty-ninth Street, she asked one day to take home some swatches and was told she had to sign for them. She wrote 'G. Garbo,' wherupon the maladroit saleswoman exclaimed, 'Oh! My mother used to take me to your movies when I was a little kid!' Garbo's comment to Sam Green on the way out was spiced with a rare and funny vulgarism:'Did you hear what that old f---k said?'
;D

[JOHN]

;D i love this one;)

[Lorna]

...Sometimes the adulation got mixed up: in a Third Avenue antique shop one day, Garbo and her MOMA friend Allen Porter were admiring some treasure. 'Do you really like it, Miss Dietrich?' the owner asked. As they left, the woman told 'Miss Dietrich' she was honored to have her come in. Said Garbo, outside: 'She obviously didn't get a look at my legs.'

[JOHN]

Cecil Beaton:




" Greta telephoned early to say she wanted me to make a date with someone else this evening:
she must go to bed with a tray at six o'clock and rest. " I feel so depleted - I don't know what's the matter with me ".
I got back late. Greta answered the front door wearing a white towel on her head, pajamas,
and a dressing gown. She felt and looked " verwahrlost " . I noticed her stockings had fallen around her ankles.
" Well, it seems the Almighty doesn't want me to do a picture: every time I think I'm going to start again,
something goes wrong ". If bad luck had not intervened, she would have come to England at the begining of
the war to film St. Joan. She had been all set to travel on a Portuguese boat at the time of the bombing of London;
but, at the last moment, Gabriel Pascal's plans with Shaw fell through. " That was the first serious disappointment
in my carrer - a hefty blow - after that nothing has happened. I really thought this time we would be doing
" Elizabeth ". Oh veh! But somehow I'm never surprised by the most unexpected things; often people may be
amazed - I'm not. Although I may never have imagined such things, when they happen they don't seem strange.
If they're bad things, then I'm sad but seldom surprised or disappointed. I'm sure I'm a reincarnation ".
" But what do you think of the Chekov? " I asked.
" It's not exciting - it's not for me. "
" Must I write that in a telegram? "
" No, let's wait. Don't let's discuss it any more. "

[david]

Lorna said:

I know this one is a little vulgar, but it is really funny.

...In the Rose Cumming showrooms on East Fifty-ninth Street, she asked one day to take home some swatches and was told she had to sign for them. She wrote 'G. Garbo,' wherupon the maladroit saleswoman exclaimed, 'Oh! My mother used to take me to your movies when I was a little kid!' Garbo's comment to Sam Green on the way out was spiced with a rare and funny vulgarism:'Did you hear what that old f---k said?'
;D

I laughed so heartily what Garbo said one vulgar word !!!!! I sometime used my sign language (f----k you!) ;D ;D , my dearly Lorna!!!! Thank for that funny and vulgar of Garbo's!!!!

[david]

JOHN said:

;D i love this one;)

;D John, yes the same I like it, too!!!!

[david]

Lorna said:

...Sometimes the adulation got mixed up: in a Third Avenue antique shop one day, Garbo and her MOMA friend Allen Porter were admiring some treasure. 'Do you really like it, Miss Dietrich?' the owner asked. As they left, the woman told 'Miss Dietrich' she was honored to have her come in. Said Garbo, outside: 'She obviously didn't get a look at my legs.'

OOOOh my lovely Lorna....I like that I read it in Garbo book....very great one!!!! I laughed so horribly about "she did not notice Garbo's dearly legs"......oh sad to think that she did not recognize her face because she thinks that she was "La Marlene Dietrich", oh what's shame on that stupid owner!!!! Garbo laughed because some owner did not know who Garbo was.....how interesting? Love, D.L.

[david]

more Garbo's quotes in a book by Karen Swenson page 528...."A long-standing joke had Greta picking up a sailor at Time Square on New Year's Eve. "You know, G., you keep joking about all these things. I think they're things you'd really like to do, but don't have the courage," Betty Spiegel once told her. Garbo smiled. Betty believed she knew what Greta's idea of a perfect date was: one evening, she announced to the two Bettys that a gentleman would be joining them for thingytails. "Betty and I looked at each other and I said, 'G.,do you have a beau?' She said, 'He's my steady. I quess you could call him my steady.' I said, 'I didn't know you had a fellow'....and Betty said,'Oh, come on, she's putting us on. It's a joke.' Well, she had a little doll dressed up like a boy and she had him sitting in a chair facing the other way. So she turned the chair around and that was the gentleman she had invited." ;D

OOOOh sweet Garbo loved the boy doll!!!!! Love, D.L.

[JOHN]

" I HAVE MESSED UP MY LIFE AND IT'S TOO LATE TO CHANGE THAT. THESE WALKS ARE JUST AN ESCAPE. WHEN I WALK ALONE, I THINK ABOUT MY LIFE AND THE PAST... I AM NOT SATISFIED WITH THE WAY I MADE MY LIFE ".



thanks to Gianni;)

I like this quote ..i understand this too well....

[david]

Here's one encounters: Karen Swenson "Life Apart" book page 456..."Garbo and George Schlee flew to Paris on their way to the French Riviera, where they had been invited to stay at Villa la Reine Jeanne, Commandant Paul-Louis Weiller's home in Bormes-les-Mimosas. Greta had met the French industrialist through Elsie Mendl and jokingly referred to him as "Paul-Louis Quatorze." Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., recalls meeting Garbo , Chaplin, and a host of others at Weiller's home. On one memorable occasion, the group took a motorboat out; as they turned into one of the alcoves, they noticed a group of nude bathers on shore. Seemingly ignorant of who their visitors were, several unembarrassed bathers started waving, others swam toward the boat. When a few portly swimmers turned to float on their backs, Greta couldn't contain herself any longer and broke out into peals of laughter. "She was just roaring," Fairbanks remembers." ;D

[david]

Oh more....the same book by Karen. S, pg. 540...."As the years passed, "Garbo sightings" up and down the avenues and obscure corners from Forty-eight to Seventy-second Streets became commonplace. Garbo-watchers, it was noted, were divided into two categories: passive and active. Some chased; most watched from afar. Admirers were usually surprised to encounter, not a monotone figure in gray but a healthy-looking older woman who wore mascara, eye shadow, and lipstick; she was flesh and blood. She also knew how to fend for herself and often used her umbrella to excellent advantage. Pursued for blocks by curious fan, Greta finally turned to face him. "If you follow me any more, I am going to call a cop," she said. The embarrassed Garbo-watcher blurted out an apology, professing his undying admiration. Greta's voice softened. "Then why do you follow me?" she asked as if speaking to a child. "Please don't at all."

The best relationship to cultivate with her on the street was an anonymous one. "I almost feel I know her----or I should say, my dog knows," a resident of Sutton Place remarked. "Whenever I'm walking him and Garbo comes along, she'll bend down and pet him, tell him how nice he is, and walk off. She has never said a word to me; it's as if I didn't exist." But she did acknowledge the homeless who had become non-existent in the minds of many of her affluent neighbors. According to Raymond Daum, Greta "used to stop and give money to bums on the street. She always had empathy with the poor." ;D

Wow, she was so sweet to help for the homeless people and a dog, too....oh interesting? She was so calm to talk little words to GG fan or GG-watchers!!!! How frightful GG met anyone is the GG fan? Sad!
Love ya, D.L.

[david]

:)Hi, I quote from a book by Alexander Walker...."One of the few recorded snubs she received came from Francoise Rosary. Her friend William Sorensen, a young Swede she had met on her first visit home who followed her back to Hollywood, had accepted a dinner invitation from Rosay and her husband Jacques Feyder. 'Garbo seemed to congeal at the news that I was going out to dinner without her. "Why can't the two of us go out together?" "Because I've accepted. I can't go on cancelling engagements because of you." "No," I replied, "call them yourself. They're already offended at you for not coming last time." Garbo made the telephone call...and was told she could come, but the tone of Francoise Rosary's voice had an edge to it.' The rebuke stung Garbo to the quick and she dressed to kill for once in her life----black tailored dress, mascara, powder. She was impatient on the way to the house and, on entering, cried out 'Ich bin ganz und gar besoffen' ('I am stinking drunk'). Rosay replied, 'Greta, never mind. Sie herzliches willkommen to you just the same.' Love, D.L.

[david]

This of course came in useful for fending off the Press. "Has any romance come into your life while aboard?" Garbo replied, "Isn't life always full of romance?" But although this is typical of the way she deflects enquiries, it also characterizes her preference for the abstract over the personal.