Quotes from Joan Crawford

As a director of a large corporation I'm having as much fun now as I ever did in those crazy Black Bottom-and-Charleston days when Scott Fitzgerald called me "the best example of the flapper.

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

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

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.

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

Choose your clothes for your way of life.

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.

I am just too much.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.

I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid.

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

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

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

I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.

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!