- Joan Crawford: [to Pauline] I'm not turning you down because you're a woman. I'm turning you down because you're a nobody. And at this late stage of my career, I don't have the luxury of putting myself in the hands of a nobody. I have very few chances left, and my last chance is not going to be your first.
- Jack Warner: [to Joan] When those nominations come out, I want you to be shaking hands and sucking cocks, even if you yourself are not nominated. It is your goddamn fiduciary responsibility.
- Joan Crawford: Well, I'm sure when the picture opens, there'll be no end of offers.
- Marty: And we'll be here to field them.
- Joan Crawford: Fuck you, Marty. If I have to find my own projects and wait for you to field offers instead of drumming them up, I don't see the point of having an agent. Or a room full of fucking agents. You're all fired.
- Bette Davis: Half the success belongs to you.
- Joan Crawford: Then I'd appreciate it if you'd enjoy it half as much.
- Mamacita: Miss Joan forbids sweets. She says sugar is a dangerous food. I take my thrills where I can.
- Hedda Hopper: She has the critics. So what? You have the audience. You're the one they're rooting for, not her.
- Joan Crawford: You know, I... I really thought this film was going to be a flop. I really did, Hedda. And I thought, "Well, this is going to kill me." But now I wish it had because this is even worse. It's like I wasn't even in the goddamned picture. And now there's talk of Oscar nominations.
- Hedda Hopper: She'll get a nomination, but so will you.
- Joan Crawford: Oh, you can't really believe that.
- Hedda Hopper: They wouldn't dare nominate her and not you. Yes, all right, she plays a lunatic, but you play a cripple!
- Joan Crawford: It's just like 1937 all over again.
- Mamacita: When Hitler took Austria?
- Joan Crawford: No, when they labeled me box-office poison. I couldn't get arrested in this goddamn town.