28 Quotes by Susan Hayward

You're beautiful in your wrath.

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.

You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.

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.

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.

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.

You’re beautiful in your wrath.

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.

I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It’s only natural. At least it was for me.