“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.” — Susan Hayward
“I like to find my excitement on the sound stages. It’s safer that way.” — Susan Hayward
Source: Erskine Johnson (1946)
Photo: 1946
“Making films is a business and I am just one of the industry’s working girls. I do not think I can play in too many pictures as long as the stories are good. In the best pictures each person in the audience has something in common with one or more of the people on the screen. Work this out for yourself when it comes to the unconventional roles I specialize in.” — Susan Hayward
Source: 1950
Photo: 1946
“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.” — Susan Hayward
Photo: 1946
Photo: 1951
