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Joan Crawford
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“[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?”
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“[On her autobiography:] I'm a goddam image, not a person, and the poor girl who worked on it had to write about the image. ... I think she'd have been better off with Lassie.”
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“My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.”
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“... all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.”
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“We were so totally owned by the studio we could have had 'Property of MGM' tattoed on our backsides without raising the slightest objection.”
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“... we even believed our own publicity.”
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“Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.”
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“Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.”
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“Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?”
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“The most important thing a woman can have — next to talent, of course — is her hairdresser.”
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“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
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“I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”
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“[Clause in her will:] It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.”
Joan Crawford, U.S. actor, businesswoman
(1905 - 1977)
Real name: Lucille Fay Le Sueur.