Top 83 Quotes About Joan Crawford
#1. Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
#2. The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#3. You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good ... Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
Bette Davis
#4. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - JOAN CRAWFORD
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#5. I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don't want to know the time when I'll have to come to the studio even earlier.
Grace Kelly
#6. I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
Amanda Donohoe
#7. I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
Joan Crawford
#8. A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.
Trinny Woodall
#9. There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
Bette Davis
#10. 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".
Joan Crawford
#11. If you ordered up a whore here, you'd probably get a theater major doing Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson. I wonder what would happen if I ordered up a Hershey bar?" His eyes lit up for a moment. "I wonder what would happen if I ordered up a whore and a Hershey bar?
Kage Baker
#12. The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis
#13. In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
Alice Walker
#14. To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.
Evelyn Keyes
#15. I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.
Berenice Bejo
#16. People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.
Cate Blanchett
#17. The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
Manny Farber
#18. I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford.
Jane Birkin
#19. I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
Bernie Mac
#20. It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.
James Gray
#21. I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s ... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.
Grace Jones
#22. I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire
Bette Davis
#23. Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
Mercedes McCambridge
#24. My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
Sloane Crosley
#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!'
Joan Crawford
#26. As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.
Nicholas Ray
#27. There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.
Sterling Hayden
#28. Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
Joan Crawford
#29. 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.
Joan Crawford
#30. Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?
Joan Crawford
#31. 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.
Joan Crawford
#32. If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?
Joan Crawford
#33. I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.
Joan Crawford
#35. There's nothing wrong with my tits but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces.
Joan Crawford
#37. My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.
Joan Crawford
#38. If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
Joan Crawford
#39. 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.
Joan Crawford
#40. 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.
Joan Crawford
#41. 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.
Joan Crawford
#42. Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
Joan Crawford
#43. I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford
#44. 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.
Joan Crawford
#45. 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.
Joan Crawford
#46. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.
Joan Crawford
#47. 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."
Joan Crawford
#50. 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.
Joan Crawford
#51. I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.
Joan Crawford
#52. 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.
Joan Crawford
#53. I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty ... in every form.
Joan Crawford
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Joan Crawford
#55. Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
Joan Crawford
#56. [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?
Joan Crawford
#57. 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.
Joan Crawford
#58. Love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
#59. [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.
Joan Crawford
#60. 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.
Joan Crawford
#61. 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.
Joan Crawford
#62. Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
Joan Crawford
#63. You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Joan Crawford
#64. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.
Joan Crawford
#65. I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.
Joan Crawford
#66. Learn to breathe, learn to speak , but first ..learn to feel
Joan Crawford
#67. All that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.
Joan Crawford
#68. I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?
Joan Crawford
#69. 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.
Joan Crawford
#70. Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.
Joan Crawford
#72. Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.
Joan Crawford
#73. Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
Joan Crawford
#74. Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.
Joan Crawford
#75. I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford
#76. It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
Joan Crawford
#77. Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.
Joan Crawford
#78. 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.
Joan Crawford
#80. 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.
Joan Crawford
#81. 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.
Joan Crawford
#83. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
Joan Crawford
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