Joan Crawford Quotes
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Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.
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Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
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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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Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star. Possibly he resented Hollywood's refusal to let him forget it. There was never a doubt in my mind that his talent was greater than mine.
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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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Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are
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Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.
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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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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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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!
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If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?
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If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.
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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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I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.
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If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
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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.
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Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
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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.
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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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Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?
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Check out the very best of Hollywood jokes that will make you laugh
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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.
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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.
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[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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If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
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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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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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I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
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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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