Top 280 Joan Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner!

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

Joan Rivers was my hero.

My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one has met only three times. One is attracted, yes; but one does not fall in love. A moment's reflection enabled him to diagnose his sensations correctly. This odd impulse to leap across the compartment and kiss Joan was not love. It was merely the natural desire of a good-hearted young man to be decently chummy with his species.

I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.'

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

I used to play Joan Jett all the time. Then, the movie 'The Runaways' came out. It was a wrap from there.

To be playing Joan Crawford is as good as it gets.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

I met Joan Jett and Kim Fowley in a club, and all of a sudden this amazing offer comes to me. I'm thinking 'This is all I want to do.' I jumped at the chance.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

I really want to do a cover of Joan Armatrading.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.

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

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Joan of Arc' is about not feeling scared to call yourself beautiful. Why shouldn't you!?

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.

When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

Melissa Joan Hart's reading is, by far, one of the most emotional, exceptional readings I've ever done.

I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.

And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. People’s lives were saved because of what those voices told her.

The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons that I've never written about sex. Because early on you had to worry that someone was going to find your diary, so it's bad enough to be writing like Joan Didion, but writing like Joan Didion about sex acts you'd performed with somebody you had known for 20 minutes, that's a bit worse. So I would write in my diary, "I met J. and we had sex five times last night." But I would never write about what we did.

I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly.

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

I mean, I see the old interviews with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, these characters clawed their way up - what stories.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.