"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 don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax."

(Susan Hayward, nome d'arte di Edythe Marrenner, star del cinema; New York, 30 giugno 1917 – Hollywood, 14 marzo 1975)