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 Susan Hayward Quotation"I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman." "I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top -- and never fell off." "My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax." "When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important." Movie Title: Among the Living (1941) as Millie Pickens: [Eyeing Raden's bankroll] Millie Pickens : Say, if I had a wad of folding dough like that I'd go right out and buy an outfit that would knock this neighborhood cockeyed! [Not knowing Paul is the escaped serial killer, Millie gives him a gun and suggests they search the deserted Raden estate to earn the reward for his capture] Paul Raden : You're not afraid -- at all? Millie Pickens : For five thousand dollars, I'm not afraid of anything, not even death! Movie Title: Sis Hopkins (1941) as Carol Hopkins: [Carol tells Sis that's she'll be initiated into a sorority] Carol Hopkins : But you mustn't tell a soul. Sis Hopkins : I'll be a real dummy. Carol Hopkins : You're tellin' I. Movie Title: The Conqueror (1956) as Bortai: Bortai : For me, there is no peace while you live, Mongol. Temujin : You're beautiful in your wrath. Bortai : The Conqueror? Mighty armies cannot stop him. But one touch of my lips... Yes, he captured me - but he cannot tame me. Movie Title: Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) as Messalina: Messalina : Why did you run? I don't think you're a coward. You had no real chance of escaping, you must have known that! Demetrius : This is a place where men are trained to kill each other like animals! Messalina : And men aren't animals? Demetrius : No! Messalina : We admire a magnificent animal who fights. Why not a man who fights ? Demetrius : Because God did not put man on earth to destroy his own kind. Nor a woman to enjoy their agonies as they die. Messalina : What is your name? Demetrius : Demetrius. Messalina : You spoke of a god, Demetrius. Which god? Demetrius : There is only one God. Claudius : He's one of "them". This is very interesting. A Christian! Messalina : Are you a Christian? Demetrius : Yes. Messalina : And you won't fight? Demetrius : No. Claudius : He can't my dear. It's against his religion to kill. Messalina : [arrogantly] You'll never get him back. What can you offer him ? The company of slaves and beggars ? The refuse of Rome ? Poverty and self-denial ? Prayers ? Tears ? Death ? You see, I've studied your teachings, and I, Fisherman, I can give him the world. If he has to choose between us, do you think he'd hesitate for one minute ? Of course not. And that's why you hate me. I can see it in your eyes. Peter : What you see in my eyes in pity. [she tosses her goblet of wine in his face] Messalina : Get out ! Movie Title: I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) as Lillian Roth: [Alcoholic Lillian is desperate for a drink. Mother drops the glass bottle on the floor, shattering it] Lillian Roth : OH! Look what ya did! And ya DID IT ON PURPOSE! You're still trying to make me do what you want, to be what you want! What are you trying to do, drive me crazy? I can't be anything except what I am! Alright, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! So take a good look! And then get outta here! Get out! GET OUT! Movie Title: Where Love Has Gone (1964) as Valerie Hayden Miller: Valerie Hayden Miller : When you're dying from thirst, you'll drink from a mudhole. Movie Title: Deadline at Dawn (1946) as June Goth: June Goth : You see, son, it's all right to live in a cocoon like this if you expect to be a butterfly some day. Otherwise... June Goth : Call me June. It rhymes with moon. June Goth : If you hear a peculiar noise, it's my skin creeping. June Goth : This is New York. Where hello means goodbye. Movie Title: Canyon Passage (1946) as Lucy Overmire: Logan Stuart : George, when is this girl going to marry you? George Camrose : I doubt if she knows hereself, Logan. When are you taking me, Lucy? Lucy Overmire : George, do you like poetry? George Camrose : Must I like poetry to be your husband? Lucy Overmire : We'll be married when the leaves fall. George Camrose : You see, Logan, she strings me up and lets me swing. You mean the maple leaves that fall early, or the pine needles that never fall at all? Ben Dance : If you want to catch a man, you got to work at it. Lucy Overmire : I want no man I have to catch. Ben Dance : Why sure, you catch him and he catches you. A man always figures that he does the catching. The truth is, it's the woman that brings him up on the rope... and him not quite knowing it. Lucy Overmire : It's so peaceful here. George Camrose : The illusion of peace is upon us. Lucy Overmire : You sound rather jaded. George Camrose : Oh, these cabin raisers jade me. People planting themselves in one rough spot for the rest of their lives. I'm more for mansions and plush furniture. Movie Title: The President's Lady (1953) as Rachel Donaldson Robards Jackson: Rachel Donaldson Robards Jackson : [to Andrew who is planning to dual with Charles Dickinson the following morning] Andrew, if I'm to be the cause of all your quarrels for the rest of your life, then you give me no choice. I must leave you! I will not let you be killed because of me, nor will I let you take another man's life. I must leave! President Andrew Jackson : You'd leave me now?? Rachel Donaldson Robards Jackson : No! No! Oh Andrew, please, please don't do this! If Mr. Dickinson's bullet kills you, it kills me too! Let him say what he will about me! President Andrew Jackson : No man can say what he will about my wife!! Rachel, I've failed you a great many times and a great many ways and I hope you'll forgive me. But I couldn't expect you to forgive me if I lived without honor! Movie Title: I Want to Live! (1958) as Barbara Graham: Barbara Graham : I never even knew the dame. Police lieutenant : You know she's been murdered, don't you? Barbara Graham : Yeah. So was Julius Caesar. I didn't know him either. Movie Title: Rawhide (1951) as Vinnie Holt: Zimmerman : Tevis has no respect for the dead. Vinnie Holt : And he just loves the living? Movie Title: Valley of the Dolls (1967) as Helen Lawson: Helen Lawson : The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember? Helen Lawson : They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me. Neely O'Hara : Makes a change from the fags you usually hang around with. Helen Lawson : At least I didn't have to marry one! Neely O'Hara : [after pulling off Helen Lawson's wig] It's a wig! Her hair's as fake as she is! Helen Lawson : [singing] It's my yard So I will try hard To welcome friends I've yet to know! Oh, I'll plant my own tree. My! Own! Tree! And I! [pause] Helen Lawson : Will! [pause] Helen Lawson : Make! [pause] Helen Lawson : It! [pause] Helen Lawson : Grow! |
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