Joan Quotes

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.

Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

Joan's a dream to play - she's not always prancing around the office. There's that side to it, which is really fun, but there's nitty-gritty. She's what makes the workplace so fun - in a workplace that can be so dark and so much tension, Joan gives some levity. And the wonderful thing is she still has these darker moments among the fabulous highs.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.