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".

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

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.

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.