I was born in front of a camera and really don’t know anything else.
You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
If I can’t be me, I don’t want to be anybody.
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.”
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.
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.
Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.
Not that anyone cares, but there’s a right and wrong way to clean a house.
I’d like to think every director I’ve worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.
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 was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?
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.
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.
Sensitive husbands don’t like second billing.
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 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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I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what’s to keep it from getting done?
My God, I’m four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.