I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
Source: In Garbo, by John Bainbridge, 1955.
-- Greta Garbo, (Sep 18 1905-1990), Swedish actress; She became a famed recluse with her I want to be alone line in the film Grand Hotel, 1932.