Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 - 15 April 1990)
“Garbo was not an actress, as she so inaccurately is called; she was an ‘instinctive’ and a ‘behaviourist’ – very different things altogether. Acting, as such, is surface; ‘behaving’ is interior and only surfaces in thought. The camera photographs thought as readily as it photographs acting, but it sets both on the screen, and the result, which most often touches the audience, is the ‘thought’ rather than the histrionics. Garbo had thought in abundance.”
- Dirk Bogarde
