Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: [reading a note from Tod] Don't say 'them things'. Don't say 'can it'. Don't say 'guy'. Don't buy shoes with ribbons on them. Don't forget, what's a striptease on 2nd Avenue is art on Broadway. The $50 is to buy you a dress without a zipper.


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Dancing Lady

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: [to the heavy drinking Tod Newton] You sure drink a good dinner.


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Dancing Lady

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I'll stick to those thousand-to-one shots - sometimes they win.


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Dancing Lady

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I'm like the guy throwing quarters in the slot machine. I keep on trying.


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Dancing Lady

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Sorry to tell ya, but I'm the kind of investment that doesn't pay.


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Dancing Lady

Jenny Stewart: Well, I happen to *like* it unorthodox, arbitrary, and abrupt!


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Torch Song

Jessie Cassidy: Eddie, I know that look in your eyes. You're saying, "What'd I do wrong now?" You didn't do anything wrong, Eddie. You never have, I guess for you, and you never will, because you don't do things for the same reasons as other people. You don't even live in the same world. You've got one all for yourself, the world by, for, and with Eddie Miller. Nobody's going to ever share your life, are they Eddie? They're just going to help you live it. Isn't that it?


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Mannequin

Jessie Cassidy: Look, Eddie, here's a world. You and I have this little space all to ourselves. What we feel for each other shuts out all the rest. So what more do we need? That's all people have to fight for is... a little place to themselves. Do you see what I mean?


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Mannequin

Jessie Cassidy: We're not so old now. That is, not so very. Sometimes I feel kind of... old. It's because I feel sort of, well, responsible for everything, I guess: I dump myself on you just when you were starting to get ahead - it wasn't fair; it wasn't fair to you. But I hated Hester Street so - and I wanted you, and I couldn't wait any longer - I waited so long!


--Joan Crawford (as ) in Mannequin

Julie: And as for going around with you, I still pick my own gutters


--Joan Crawford (as Julie) in Strange Cargo