"I am not Esther of Ben-Hur (1959). I am an actress who played the part of Esther. But that doesn't mean I have to go on playing Esther for the rest of my life. MGM treated me as a father would have treated me. I was well taken care of. But I was not allowed to grow up. They could think of me only in terms of Biblical pictures. Other studios did not know me as a person, so they thought of me in the same way."

(Haya Harareet, talvolta indicata anche come Haya Hararit, attice e sceneggiatrice; Haifa, 20 settembre 1931 – Marlow, 3 febbraio 2021)