Joan Crawford Quotes

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

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

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

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

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

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.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

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

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

Be afraid of nothing.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

[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?

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.

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

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

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