Broderick Crawford Quotes

“My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.”

“I suppose it must be admitted that I was raised in a "dysfunctional" family, but in truth, I do not think I had any sense of that as I was growing up. Probably part of the reason was that all of my extended kin had families at least as dysfunctional as mine. Just to give a little of the flavor of it, my "Aunt Fern," who lived just across the street and was one of the most present and puissant female relatives in my life, was, to be genealogically precise, my mother's brother's, first wife's, second husband's, father's, 3rd, 4th, and 5th wife. (She married "Uncle Lew" three times in the course of her seven matrimonial ventures.)”

“... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?”

“Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.”

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

“knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.”

“Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.”

“He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.”

“I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.”

“I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.”