Susan Hayward Quotes

"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."

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`m not going to say I`m sold on a five-day fair, and I`m not sure we can do it.

It`s an experiment year for us too. We had a young rock band last night, more of a kid`s or college age and the night before that we had Loggins and Messina , and it was a little older group. So this is a trial for us. We`ll see if people enjoy it, if they come, if they don`t we won`t do it again.

I`m tickled to death,

(Without financial help,) we put out fires, ... That`s not any way to maintain a piece of property. Right now it is just catch-up for us.

I`ll cry tomorrow.

This is an opportunity for the community of South Dakota to take part in planning the future of the State Fair and this beautiful property. I truly hope to see people from across the state take part in this open meeting.

I don`t know if that`s entertainment or people with gas issues or what it would be, but I`m not concerned about it at this point.

Here we have this beautiful property. It is a state property. We should be very, very proud of it, and we should be taking care of it.

We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled.

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor.