I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan CrawfordYou have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Joan CrawfordMr. 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.
Joan CrawfordI'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.
Joan CrawfordI had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.
Joan Crawford