Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

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'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

[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?

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

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