Best 45 quotes of Joan Crawford on MyQuotes

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!

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

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.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

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Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!'

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sensitive husbands don't like second billing.

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

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.

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.

There's nothing wrong with my tits, but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces!

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".

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.

[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?

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

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.

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.

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