Eloise Winters:
You dance with Mary Jane. I'm going to smoke a Parliament.
--Susan Hayward (as ) in My Foolish Heart
--Susan Hayward (as ) in My Foolish Heart
Helen Lawson:
[singing] It's my yard So I will try hard To welcome friends I've yet to know! Oh, I'll plant my own tree. My! Own! Tree! And I!
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Helen Lawson: Will!
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Helen Lawson: Make!
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Helen Lawson: It!
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Helen Lawson: Grow!
--Susan Hayward (as Helen Lawson) in Valley of the Dolls
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Helen Lawson: Will!
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Helen Lawson: Make!
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Helen Lawson: It!
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Helen Lawson: Grow!
--Susan Hayward (as Helen Lawson) in Valley of the Dolls
Helen Lawson:
The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?
--Susan Hayward (as Helen Lawson) in Valley of the Dolls
--Susan Hayward (as Helen Lawson) in Valley of the Dolls
Helen Lawson:
They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.
--Susan Hayward (as Helen Lawson) in Valley of the Dolls
--Susan Hayward (as Helen Lawson) in Valley of the Dolls
June Goth:
If you hear a peculiar noise, it's my skin creeping.
--Susan Hayward (as ) in Deadline at Dawn
--Susan Hayward (as ) in Deadline at Dawn
June Goth:
You see, son, it's all right to live in a cocoon like this if you expect to be a butterfly some day. Otherwise...
--Susan Hayward (as ) in Deadline at Dawn
--Susan Hayward (as ) in Deadline at Dawn
Lillian Roth:
What I'm doing now is 'wrong'... and I'm *doing* it!
--Susan Hayward (as ) in I'll Cry Tomorrow
--Susan Hayward (as ) in I'll Cry Tomorrow
Louise Merritt:
Wes tells me you once made three thousand dollars in one day, rodeoin'.
Jeff McCloud: That's right.
Louise Merritt: And threw it all away.
Jeff McCloud: Oh, I didn't throw it away. It just sorta'... floated.
Louise Merritt: That's pretty stupid, breakin' all your bones, then lettin' the money go.
--Susan Hayward (as Louise Merritt) in The Lusty Men
Jeff McCloud: That's right.
Louise Merritt: And threw it all away.
Jeff McCloud: Oh, I didn't throw it away. It just sorta'... floated.
Louise Merritt: That's pretty stupid, breakin' all your bones, then lettin' the money go.
--Susan Hayward (as Louise Merritt) in The Lusty Men