Joan Crawford quotes
8 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Joan Crawford wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around.
Everything that you will read in these pages is the truth as far as I know; but not all of the truth is printed.
To every woman I say: Never allow the past to molest the present. Your life is your own: Live it.
It is to this theater as much as to my innate nature that I owe the birth of my desire to become a dancer.
I walked out of those ugly laundry quarters with a few paltry dollars, a few paltry clothes and the new feeling that I was not an inferior person. I was a dancer and as such capable of earning my own living.
I have said that I would never marry. But then I had not met the man I wanted to marry. I am going to marry Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. This is an announcement of our engagement.
Diana in “Our Dancing Daughters” is my favorite role, because she was my first real part and earned stardom for me. Then, too, she was so gay — blatant, of course, but with the blatancy of youth and fearlessness. I'll always love Diana!
The time is so short — and there's so much to do.
And when I'm working, all of my energy, all of my time, goes to the picture. I can't do — I can't even think — of anything else. Everything has to be so perfect.
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