Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Crawford

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Joan Crawford was an American actress. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled "box office poison".

American - Actress | March 23, 1905 - May 10, 1977

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

Joan Crawford

I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!

Joan Crawford

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

Joan Crawford

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

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

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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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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

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

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

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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

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

Joan Crawford

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

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

Joan Crawford

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

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

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

Joan Crawford

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

[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

Be afraid of nothing.

Joan Crawford

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

Joan Crawford

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

Joan Crawford

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

Joan Crawford

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

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.

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

Joan Crawford

You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.

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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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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.

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

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Choose your clothes for your way of life.

Joan Crawford

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

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

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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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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My tears speak for me.

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

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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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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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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

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

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

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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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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!

Joan Crawford

Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Joan Crawford

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