If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

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

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.

You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else

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