Joan Crawford
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.Collection: Money
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.Collection: Beauty
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?Collection: Women
The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born, and I am honored to be a part of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
I am just too much.
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.
I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.Collection: Want
Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.Collection: Flower
Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.Collection: Firsts
Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.Collection: Forever
Care for your clothes, like the good friends they areCollection: Good Friend
My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.Collection: Years
You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.Collection: Children
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.Collection: Childhood
1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!Collection: Fashion
Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.Collection: Feel Good
Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.Collection: House
[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?Collection: Mother
There's nothing wrong with my tits, but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces!Collection: Sexy
I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?Collection: Discipline
The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born and I am honored to be apart of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Kennedy have done so much in that regard for the two generations they've won over during their career course.Collection: Party
If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?Collection: Done
I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything elseCollection: Cameras
Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.Collection: Hepburn
Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.Collection: Stars
Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?Collection: Fairness
My tears speak for me.Collection: Tears
I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.Collection: Thinking
Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.Collection: Office
While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.Collection: Morning
Check out the very best of Hollywood jokes that will make you laughCollection: Laughing
Sensitive husbands don't like second billing.Collection: Husband
Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.Collection: Play
I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.Collection: Grandmother
I remember most clearly when a teenage Christopher spat in my face. He said, "I hate you". It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't.Collection: Teenage
I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.Collection: Hands
Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!Collection: Bad Ass
I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.Collection: Emotional
all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.Collection: Expression