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If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.


Greta Garbo

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Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Maril...
TABATHA COFFEY 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 had the opportunity and the pleasure and the good luck to direct the two people I consider were th...
CLARENCE BROWN All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Those who dream only by night are harmless. It is those who make their dreams happen by day that are...
NICOLE MA Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Those who knew him remember how much his position and voice meant in difficult times when all the ch...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only...
VOLTAIRE 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 I want to be left alone.
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 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 I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the differe...
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.
GRETA GARBO Garbo: The Signature Collection
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 If your dream is only about you, it's too small.
AVA DUVERNAY Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
OSCAR WILDE They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don't you know it's enough if all you do is ...
BRITTANY BURGUNDER I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate ...
LEBRON JAMES Greta is a player. If I were Bill O'Reilly, I'd watch out.
GAIL EVANS This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer...
FERNANDO PESSOA You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
BRADLEY WHITFORD The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dre...
OSCAR WILDE I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had t...
ZIYI ZHANG If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.
ALIREZA SALEHI NEJAD The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell Go...
TOM CLANCY There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.
LIBBA BRAY There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is, ... And it never stops.
LIBBA BRAY He was mine, and I was his. If I knew anything at all, it was that only those two things mattered.
JAMIE MCGUIRE Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
OSCAR WILDE The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people-
those who live to dream
and ...
MUNIA KHAN If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hai...
RICHELLE MEAD Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
SHAWN AMOS Just a thought...When striving to accomplish something deeply personal and worthwhile, there is some...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at pu...
RICHARD CORLISS It worked for Garbo and Elvis.
JUDY WADE I dream about home.. and it just makes it difficult to wake up.
SAMANTHA SOTTO People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those ...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN It's something all of us around here already knew. If the only thing you knew about Mike is that he ...
GREG BURKE It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected...
ANN PATCHETT It is difficult to forgive those who steal our time.
VIKRANT PARSAI Only those people, who have wealth can dream of acquiring gems and precious stones.
SAM VEDA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I a...
KATE FORSYTH The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're ...
NIGEL COLE There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hope...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Those who do not study history are forced to get it from Hollywood
ALLEN BARRA Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dre...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN These wars are not only difficult to report, but increasingly difficult to survive. Those [journalis...
MARTIN BELL We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
ALAN BEAN When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The onl...
CARRIE FISHER For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood...
ALAN MAK There are those who speak and those who dream.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Life is never easy for those who dream.
ROBERT JAMES WALLER Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare ...
ANNE SWETCHINE Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare ...
ANNE-SOPHIE SWETCHINE Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare ...
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE [The resulting show --] still amazing to me how it all came together, ... who understand each other....
BRAD MELTZER It may be those who do most, dream most.
STEPHEN LEACOCK The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND The marketing department is doing a great job. Those kids knew all about the Angels.
ARNOLD BRAITHWAITE Don't dream it, be it.
TIM CURRY The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in t...
BRUCE WILKINSON If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going ...
RICKY SCHRODER I haven't lost hope but I think it is going to be very difficult. I am not playing very much with my...
ANTONIO CASSANO Love is a dream for those who don't love.
THESULA GUYRUKA ILESINGHE Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
MATTHEW PRIOR The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
PAT CONROY

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GRETA GARBO I want to be left alone.
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...
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GRETA GARBO Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direc...
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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.
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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 I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the differe...
GRETA GARBO There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
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GRETA GARBO I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
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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 A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
GRETA SCACCHI I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you hav...
GRETA GERWIG You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.
GRETA SCACCHI I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very...
GRETA GERWIG I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.
GRETA GERWIG I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think ...
GRETA SCACCHI I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.
GRETA SCACCHI In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have s...
GRETA SCACCHI We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfath...
GRETA GERWIG I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own ide...
GRETA SCACCHI We have no power, so we have no heat on.
GRETA MARTINEZ We have no power so we have no heat on right at this time.
GRETA MARTINEZ This year was harder because everyone was getting ready for us, spending much more time for our game...
GRETA LUKSYTE Our defense wasn't very good and we didn't make the first couple of baskets, so we were pressing.
GRETA LUKSYTE We were really worried before the game because we thought they were undefeated and we hadn't seen th...
GRETA LUKSYTE Nicole is gaining a lot from Sarah's great leadership, and being that she's a freshman, that's key f...
GRETA GNAGY She's a force on the mound. She's definitely improved from last year to this year. She worked very h...
GRETA GNAGY Everyone has shown up (offensively) at different times in the clutch.
GRETA GNAGY We need to keep the fire alive. I think we can do it. I think (the players) have a good sense of tak...
GRETA GNAGY We believed in ourselves before we went down there, but I think the girls were actually surprised by...
GRETA GNAGY We have some big hitters and our top defensive players are back. We also have good leadership and (t...
GRETA GNAGY We're a little young again. We have some young kids on varsity due to the fact that we don't have a ...
GRETA GNAGY Early on, the media sorted based on name recognition and financial backing. But they haven't present...
GRETA GLADNEY I'm not confident any of the front-runners will do anything to help African Americans and in particu...
GRETA GLADNEY Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterl...
GRETA CHRISTINA Atheists’ anger doesn’t prove that we’re selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we h...
GRETA CHRISTINA My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in pol...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here i...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness a...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news ga...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN Everybody conceded that one event could account or could be sexual harassment if it is severe. The b...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN If Mr. Simpson does want to give someone an interview, I suspect that he would be the one to announc...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.
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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bomb...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN I'm always happy when the viewers are happy, ... I obviously don't program for the people in the new...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN I love my sister, ... She's smart and I hope she wins. And, since she is older, I take orders from h...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN The minutiae of it, how people interpret statutes, that's not the most exciting stuff.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN I don't think what has happened to me has been fair. I think that I've gotten --that I didn't commit...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN I am not a career politician. I am a citizen fed up with the way the country is headed,
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN Biotech is a great opportunity, but it's not a thing where we want to put all of our eggs in one bas...
GRETA VON UNRUH People like to think of us as the $51 million organization.
GRETA VON UNRUH The bottom line is we need to be focused on industry diversification.
GRETA VON UNRUH I think I've tried to go through it with some form of dignity. I've tried to deal with it as best I ...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN He's distinguished himself in his career, but there's no novelty associated with him. We've had whit...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN I am a citizen fed up with the way the country is headed, ... While they may be well intentioned, I ...
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