Messalina: [arrogantly] You'll never get him back. What can you offer him ? The company of slaves and beggars ? The refuse of Rome ? Poverty and self-denial ? Prayers ? Tears ? Death ? You see, I've studied your teachings, and I, Fisherman, I can give him the world. If he has to choose between us, do you think he'd hesitate for one minute ? Of course not. And that's why you hate me. I can see it in your eyes.
Peter: What you see in my eyes in pity.
[she tosses her goblet of wine in his face]
Messalina: Get out !


--Susan Hayward (as Messalina) in Demetrius and the Gladiators

Valerie Hayden Miller: [receiving the advances of her drunken husband] You're not the first today, I'm just getting warmed up!


--Susan Hayward (as Valerie Hayden Miller) in Where Love Has Gone

Valerie Hayden Miller: When you're dying from thirst, you'll drink from a mudhole.


--Susan Hayward (as Valerie Hayden Miller) in Where Love Has Gone

Police Inspector: We have a tough, ugly job to do and you're making it tougher and uglier for all of us.
Barbara Graham: My heart bleeds for you. How can I help you Inspector, buy a few tickets to the policemen's ball?


--Susan Hayward (as Barbara Graham) in I Want to Live!

Mrs. Gerald Hayden: You have made it publicly obvious that you have only one concept of love... a vile and sinful one.
Valerie Hayden Miller: When you're dying of thirst, you drink fronm a mudhole.
Mrs. Gerald Hayden: You have devoted your life to mud and filth.
Valerie Hayden Miller: Only to get even with you.


--Susan Hayward (as Valerie Hayden Miller) in Where Love Has Gone

Candy Williams: Cherokee. That sounds sort of Indian-ish.
Cherokee Lansing: Candy. That sounds sort of sticky-ish.


--Susan Hayward (as ) in Tulsa

Zimmerman: Tevis has no respect for the dead.
Vinnie Holt: And he just loves the living?


--Susan Hayward (as ) in Rawhide

[Eyeing Raden's bankroll]
Millie Pickens: Say, if I had a wad of folding dough like that I'd go right out and buy an outfit that would knock this neighborhood cockeyed!


--Susan Hayward (as Millie Pickens) in Among the Living

[Not knowing Paul is the escaped serial killer, Millie gives him a gun and suggests they search the deserted Raden estate to earn the reward for his capture]
Paul Raden: You're not afraid -- at all?
Millie Pickens: For five thousand dollars, I'm not afraid of anything, not even death!


--Susan Hayward (as Millie Pickens) in Among the Living