Barry Paris credited as playing...
Self - Interviewee
- Self - Interviewee: When sound films came in, the dialogue she was given, with a few exceptions here and there, was not particularly brilliant. Garbo didn't begin with the words, she began with the thoughts and that came through the eyes. And what came out of her mouth was fascinating because of the tone of her voice and her delivery. You didn't need all those words when you had Garbo's eyes.
- Self - Interviewee: She would sometimes refer to herself in the masculine.
- Self - Interviewee: She would say, "I have been smoking since I was a small boy."
- Self - Interviewee: She would say, "I've been a naughty boy, today."
- Self - Interviewee: "Give an old man a cup of tea."
- Self - Interviewee: "Someone surely missed a good man in me."
- Self - Interviewee: "I'm a bad scout."
- Self - Interviewee: "Where's the little boys room?" She would call on you. You would go in there after she'd used it and the seat would be up.
- Self - Interviewee: She was constantly playing with those kinds of phrases and gender confusions in an effort to amuse people.
- Self - Interviewee: One of the few lengthy letters that Garbo ever wrote to her closest friends, Salka Viertel, quote, "Well, I was thinking about the Napoleon story and was going to ask you something that you probably would not like. I have a great longing for trousers and if I ask you in time maybe you can put in a little sequence with the trousers. I'm sorry not to contribute anything more, but it is merely to remind you about the trousers. Trousers. Girls in trousers. Pressed trousers. Girls. Trousers. Trousers. By Gertrude Stein."
- Self - Interviewee: By trying to run away she inspired such ridiculous heights as the newsman from some paper in California who actually chased her car and hopped on the running board and got her to say a single word which was, "Damn!" And that was called the one word interview with Greta Garbo.