Joan Crawford Quotes

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.

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.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

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.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Be afraid of nothing.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

[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?

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else

all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

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.

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!'

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

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.

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

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.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

My tears speak for me.

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.

Sensitive husbands don't like second billing.

If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.

Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

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.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

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.

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Choose your clothes for your way of life.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser.