Grand Hotel (I) (1932)

Greta Garbo: Grusinskaya

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Quotes 

• Grusinskaya : I want to be alone...

• Grusinskaya : I think Suzette, I've never been so tired in all my life...

• Grusinskaya : Can you imagine a hundred girls in the ballet school, each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in all the world? I was ambitious then. We were drilled like little soldiers. No rest, no stopping. I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond. Then I became famous and - But why am I telling you all this? Last night, I didn't know you at all. Who are you, really?

  Baron Felix von Geigern : What?

  Grusinskaya : I don't even know your name.

  Baron Felix von Geigern : [laughs]  I am Felix Benvenuto Freihern von Geigern. My mother called me "Flix".

  Grusinskaya : [joyously]  No! Flix! Oh, that's sweet. And how do you live? And what kind of a person are you?

  Baron Felix von Geigern : I'm a prodigal son, the black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

• Grusinskaya : Who are you?

  Baron Felix von Geigern : Someone who could love you, that's all. Someone who's forgotten everything else but you.

  Grusinskaya : You could love me?

  Baron Felix von Geigern : I've never seen anything in my life as beautiful as you are.