I want to be left alone.
Greta Garbo
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Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
AGATHA CHRISTIE My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Har...
ROBERT DE NIRO I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
AUDREY HEPBURN I had the opportunity and the pleasure and the good luck to direct the two people I consider were th...
CLARENCE BROWN I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
AUDREY HEPBURN I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the differe...
GRETA GARBO I just want to be left alone. People can just drive by and leave my place alone.
CURTIS JONES If someone don’t want you, then it’s not the time to
blame them, but it’s the time to think ab...
DR. ARUN S SON Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
GRETA GARBO I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the di...
GRETA GARBO Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell th...
GRETA GARBO There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private...
GRETA GARBO There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...
GRETA GARBO chemically, we're already quite sympathetic.
GRETA GARBO The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting...
GRETA GARBO Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direc...
GRETA GARBO If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
GRETA GARBO You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
GRETA GARBO I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing not...
GRETA GARBO There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.
GRETA GARBO If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
GRETA GARBO The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting...
GRETA GARBO Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
GRETA GARBO Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
GRETA GARBO You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
GRETA GARBO the sadness in her eyes.
GRETA GARBO If you are confirmed, you will essentially disappear from public view. This hearing will, in some wa...
GRETA GARBO There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
GRETA GARBO I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
GRETA GARBO I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing...
GRETA GARBO I smoke all the time, one after the other.
GRETA GARBO It's not just her face, which is gorgeous. It's that she's attractive in a much fuller way than that...
GRETA GARBO How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what...
GRETA GARBO I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
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GRETA GARBO Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough
GRETA GARBO I'm afraid of nothing except being bored
GRETA GARBO My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
GRETA GARBO Now I’ll be left alone, and that’s all you want, all you crave out of life: to be left alone whi...
IRVINE WELSH Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want ...
FIONA APPLE I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just wa...
REGGIE BUSH I prefer to be left alone with my books.
ALISON WEIR I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Maril...
TABATHA COFFEY He is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
WILL ROGERS I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
LAURA MARLING I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
WAYNE BRADY The doctor examined her and from what they saw, she was OK physically. Mentally -- I don't know. She...
DANIELLE PATUTO I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.
NORMA SHEARER Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough...
KENDALL JENNER I joined the military when I was very young to go out and save the world. Sadly I found out the worl...
MIGUEL A. CORREA I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
RANDY QUAID All they want to do is be left alone, sun and swim. At this point, all we have is crocodiles being c...
OFFICER JORGE PINO Good schools should be left alone.
MICHAEL GOVE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
TERRY PRATCHETT The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It i...
OSHO Jack's doing a fine job, and he should be left alone by all the political hacks that want to take sh...
BRETT HALL It worked for Garbo and Elvis.
JUDY WADE I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
LIBBA BRAY What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a ...
MILO YIANNOPOULOS Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Greta is a player. If I were Bill O'Reilly, I'd watch out.
GAIL EVANS Small children should never ever be left alone.
LT. DAVID WALTEMEYER Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
GEORGE MACDONALD Greta made it clear (to Simpson) that there would be no restrictions and there would be a full range...
TOM JOHNSON In essence, they will never be left to wander the streets alone,
ANDREW SPANO If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
MARY MACLANE Do you ever get that feeling where you don't want to talk to anyone anymore? You just want to be lef...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB There's not a lot of open habitat left where birds can be left alone and enjoyed.
JULIE OAKES We will not let Matt be forgotten. I don't want him left behind. I don't want him left there.
CAROLYN MAUPIN Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be...
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
LAURA MARLING Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.
PATRICIA BRIGGS If Chuck had just left him alone, I don't think Jayson would be where he is today.
WILLIS REED Another year! - another deadly blow!/ Another mighty empire overthrown!/ And we are left, or shall b...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Everybody has the right to be left alone but nobody has the right to demand approval.
SOURCE UNKNOWN To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKE I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone
RAINER MARIA RILKE I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, ...
JAMIE ZEPPA Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to ...
ANN BRASHARES If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll w...
VERNON WELLS I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
ELAYNE BOOSLER To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
ANTHONY BURGESS The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ROLAND BARTHES The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
ETHEL BARRYMORE I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't... don't want to be the one left behind.
SAMANTHA SOTTO To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
KENNETH TYNAN When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone...
GERTRUDE STEIN She will never be left alone. She'll always need tests, but not as often.
JULIE SCHERF What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.
JENNI FERRARI-ADLER And I alone of all mankind
Were left in loneliness behind.
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GRETA GERWIG I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own ide...
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