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.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

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.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Be afraid of nothing.

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

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".