There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.

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

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.

Be afraid of nothing.

I remember most clearly when a teenage Christopher spat in my face. He said, "I hate you". It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't.