Joan Crawford Quotes & Sayings

#1. 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.

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#2. Love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.

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#3. [Clause in her will:] 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.

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#4. 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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#5. The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.

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

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

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

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#9. I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.

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

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

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. [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?

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#15. If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody

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

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#17. Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.

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

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#19. I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

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#20. It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

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

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#22. I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid.

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#23. Choose your clothes for your way of life.

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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!'

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#26. 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.

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#27. My tears speak for me.

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

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

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#30. I had always known what I wanted, and that was beauty ... in every form ... a beautiful house, beautiful man, a beautiful life and image. I was ambitious to get the money which would attain all that for me.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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

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

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#35. Be afraid of nothing.

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#36. There's nothing wrong with my tits but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces.

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#37. Sensitive husbands don't like second billing.

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#38. 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".

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

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

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#41. When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

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

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#43. 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.

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

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#45. Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.

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

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#47. 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.

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#48. 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.

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

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#50. They were grooming Doris Day to take over the top spot. Jack L. Warner asked me to play her sister in one picture. I said, "Come on, Jack. No one could ever believe that I would have Doris Day for a sister."

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