“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.” —Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; 1917 – 1975)
“I don’t think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much… My film career faded. A man can go on playing certain roles till he’s sixty. But not a woman… The golden age is gone, and with it most of the people of great taste. It doesn’t seem to be any fun any more.”—Joan Bennett in a 1984 interview