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".

[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?

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

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.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.