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

The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.

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

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

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

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