Joan Crawford famous quotes

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

#Love #Heartbreak #Dream

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are
-- Joan Crawford

#Good Friend #Clothes #Care

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

#Sex #Needs #Clear

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

#Play #Roles #Able

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

#Beauty #Thinking #Hair

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

#Carpe Diem #Form #Wanted

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

#Girl #Doors #Want

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

#Strong #Self #Survival

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

#Cameras #Born

Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.
-- Joan Crawford

#Bad Ass #Helping #Help Me

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

#Fashion #Acting #Digging

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.
-- Joan Crawford

#Girl #Stars #Doors

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

#Best Friend #Good Friend #Common Sense

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

#Flower #Alive

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

#Believe #Dollars #I Believe

Learn to breathe, learn to speak , but first ..learn to feel
-- Joan Crawford

#Firsts #Speak #Breathe

There's nothing wrong with my ***** but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces.
-- Joan Crawford

#Sexy #People #Faces

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

#Unhappy #Faces #Bitterness

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody
-- Joan Crawford

#Want

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

#Childhood #Actors #Lollipop

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.
-- Joan Crawford

#Forever #Age #Lollipop

[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

#Mother #Children #Two

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

#Years #Age #Three

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

#Expression #Three #Helping

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

#Fairness #Sometimes #Deals

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

#Fashion #Good Friend #Play

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

#Discipline #What Is Life #Strict

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

#Feel Good #Colour #Make You Feel Good

Choose your clothes for your way of life.
-- Joan Crawford

#Clothes #Way

If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?
-- Joan Crawford

#Done #Lambs #Ovens

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!'
-- Joan Crawford

#People #Want #Proud

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

#Survival #Hollywood #Faces

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

#Wise #Party #Home

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

#Stars #Real #Class

[Clause in her will:] 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.
-- Joan Crawford

#Daughter #Son #Well Known