Greta Garbo

"I want to be alone."

Greta Garbo was not so much misquoted in this case as she was taken out of context. She did say, "I want to be Alone," but she said it while playing the role of Grusinskaya in the 1932 movie Grand Hotel. In real life, Garbo once reportedly told a friend, "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone.' There is all the difference."