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

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

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

Be afraid of nothing.

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.

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!'

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.