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"You've got to drag your weight at the box offices."
"You don't manufacture stars. You manufacture toys."
"I really knew I was a star when Mayer ordered the publicity department to... accompany my every personal appearance and make sure I said the right things... make sure I dated the right men."
"Until I get my coffee in the morning I'm a fit companion only for a sore-toothed tiger."
"If it's a good part, I wouldn't consider myself too old to play Wally Beery's grandmother!"
"The secret for serenity is just believing."
"A pillow is a lousy substitute for someone who really cares."
"If you want my opinion, far too many actresses today are little more than tramps and tarts."
"Society-- what is it but a lot of people who are for you when you're on the up and up? And what would one of them do when it came to a showdown? Nothing!"
"I instinctively knew that to make a success in the show business you must not let sentimentality enter into the business."
"Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead."
"We're paid to turn shit into gold."
"I didn't get where I am following the mundane habits of the masses."
"Scrubbing and cooking were better for me than algebra, I'm sure."
"Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house."
"Never love anything that can't love you back."
"I hate the word grandmother. It puts a woman into her grave."
"If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody."
"Inactivity is one of the great indignities of life. The need to work is always there, bugging me."
"If anyone ever catches me believing in anything, I hope they give me a good sock in the jaw."
"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."
"I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did."
"During Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu."
"I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else."
"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."
"It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman."
"Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment."
"I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."
"I am just too much."
"I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend."
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
"Women’s Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?"
"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!’"
"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."
"There's nothing wrong with my tits but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces." (on Marilyn Monroe)
"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."
"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 to a party."
"Helga, I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at the dirt." (to her maid)
"I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form."
"Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words, and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public likes that." (on Bette Davis)
"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst."
"I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love."
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