"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 was an American actress known for dramatic roles in films such as I Want to Live!, With a Song in My Heart, and Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for I Want to Live!.