Geraldine 'Gerry' March:
[indicating a built-in radio] I like that. I think it's very clever.
Tony Jardine: Thank you. I always like a woman who appreciates - and accepts - a man's ideas.
Geraldine 'Gerry' March: With... reservations?
Tony Jardine: Oh, you don't believe in inhibitions, do you?
Geraldine 'Gerry' March: [moving away] When a man begins to talk about inhibitions, it's time to look at the view.
--Joan Crawford (as Geraldine 'Gerry' March) in Our Blushing Brides
Tony Jardine: Thank you. I always like a woman who appreciates - and accepts - a man's ideas.
Geraldine 'Gerry' March: With... reservations?
Tony Jardine: Oh, you don't believe in inhibitions, do you?
Geraldine 'Gerry' March: [moving away] When a man begins to talk about inhibitions, it's time to look at the view.
--Joan Crawford (as Geraldine 'Gerry' March) in Our Blushing Brides
Harriet Craig:
No man's born ready for marriage; he has to be trained.
--Joan Crawford (as ) in Harriet Craig
--Joan Crawford (as ) in Harriet Craig
Helen Wright:
[Drinking alone, toasting herself] Here's to love...
[hesitates]
Helen Wright: ... and here's to the time when we were little girls, and no one asked us to marry.
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
[hesitates]
Helen Wright: ... and here's to the time when we were little girls, and no one asked us to marry.
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Helen Wright:
Bad manners, Mr. Boray, the infallible sign of talent!
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Helen Wright:
Did you think you could go away for weeks, almost months, never call or write and come back to find me hanging in a clothes closet like a suit that you might put on some day a year from now?
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Helen Wright:
Don't you like martinis? They're an acquired taste, like Ravel.
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Helen Wright:
I spend my life doing penance for things I never should have done in the first place
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Helen Wright:
I was married twice before - once at 16, once at 21. One was a crybaby and the other was a caveman. Between the two of them I said goodbye to girlhood.
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Helen Wright:
I'd like to slap your face.
Paul Boray: Why don't you try it?
Helen Wright: [smashes her glass against the wall]
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Paul Boray: Why don't you try it?
Helen Wright: [smashes her glass against the wall]
--Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens:
[to Carl walking away] Oh, and thanks for saving my life. I'll drop a quarter in your tambourine some time.
--Joan Crawford (as ) in Laughing Sinners
--Joan Crawford (as ) in Laughing Sinners
