| ~NOTES AND QUOTES~ |
| GINGER'S SUSAN HAYWARD HOMEPAGE |
| This is simply a mix of quotes, notes, and jottings pertaining to Susan Hayward's life and career. These notes are ongoing and will be continuously added to these pages...... There is no real organization to these. I just thought they might be of general interest to viewers and helpful to me in my research..... .........................Ginger |
| ~"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 dont want to know how. Life is too short to relax."~SH |
| ~"Let's put it this way-I feel more comfortable sleeping in the daytime."~SH |
| ~"In beige I feel like a very good little girl. Butter melts in my mouth. I've worn a great deal of beige lately, and I'm tired of being an angel."~SH |
| ~"She was the quietest girl who ever worked for me, a real lone wolf -- a girl with no time for friends or a social life. But she was a very fine model."~ ..Walter Thornton, Modeling Agent |
| ~"She had a kind of self-confidence that made you remember her. The first time I saw her, she swept into the studio as if she owned the place. Long before such catchwords as 'positive thinking' were in vogue, she was using them to propel her way to fame."~........Jon Whitcomb, illustrator and commercial artist |
| ~"All my life I'd been terribly frightened of people. I thought everyone was so brilliant. I felt so inadequate. The only way I knew how to protect myself was to scare people before they scared me."~SH |
| "We never really thought of her for Scarlett. She was very young and not too experienced, in fact, completely inexperienced. It would have been stupid to get a twenty-year-old girl to play a most demanding part. We thought, David (Selznick) thought, This girl may have some possiblities. Let's bring her out and use her for tests and put her under contract."...... George Cukor |
| ~"My mother's great fear was the idea of ever having to return to Brooklyn-the kind of life it represented."~ Timothy Barker |
| ~"I waved goodbye to the boys at the beginning and hello to them at the end."~ SH of her small but impressive part in the 1939 film "Beau Geste." |