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"And she taught me, " smiled Cecilia, "how to relax. Between scenes Garbo always retires to her dressing-room or sits on the sidelines watching, relaxed in every nerve and muscle. "

She can be more still than any human being I have ever seen. Her composure is more beautiful than the most animated motion. When she goes into an emotional scene, she is like a being charged and recharged; she is all alive and there is fire and force and depth back of it. She hasn't frittered it all away on nothings. She taught me to save myself for emotional scenes, in real life as well as on the screen. She taught me not to break myself up into little pieces for trivialities.

She taught me to be immaculate, which is quite a different thing from being 'dressy'.  I have never seen anyone more immaculate than Garbo, Her shining, brushed hair, her clean strong hands, without nail polish or benefit of beauty parlor - if ever I thought it amusing to paint my nails or frizz my hair I got well over it, thanks to her. No, she doesn't "fix up" in the beauty parlor sense of the word, but she is so shiningly groomed that it makes all that seem cheap by comparison.
She taught me the beauty and wisdom of tact. She never gives advice to younger, newer players who are working on her pictures. I know some actresses and actors who are always telling you that you should do a scene this way or that way or hadn't you, perhaps, better try it the other way; they really serve mostly to make you self-conscious.
Garbo is silent. She never gives one an inferiority complex. She seems to expect people to live up to what they are supposed to do.