My tears speak for me.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

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.

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".

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

I had always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form... a beautiful house, beautiful man, a beautiful life and image. I was ambitious to get the money which would attain all that for me.