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.

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

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.

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

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

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.

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

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

Be afraid of nothing.

[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?

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?