And now I want to make a speech. Gentlemen of the academy and fellow suckers, I got one of those once for the best performance once. It don't mean a thing! People get'em every year!

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14 seconds sound clip from the A Star is Born classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:37:13 in the radio play.

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- I wish Norman were here.

- Miss Lester, if you please. What more can I say, Miss Lester? This statuette says it for all of us.

- Ladies and gentlemen, when something like this happens to you, and you try to tell how you feel about it, you find that out of all the words in the world there are only two that really mean anything. Thank you.

- All I can do is say them to you from my heart. All I can do is tell you that I'll keep...

- 'Rayyyyyy! 'Ray!

- That was a very pretty speech, my dear, and I want to be the first to congratulate you on that valuable little piece of bric-a-brac.

- And now I want to make a speech. Gentlemen of the academy and fellow suckers, I got one of those once for the best performance once. It don't mean a thing! People get'em every year!

- What I want's a special award! Something nobody else can get! I want a statuette for the worst performance of the year.

- I want three statuettes for the three worst performances of the year! I earned them and everybody that saw those last masterpieces of mine knows I've earned 'em.

- What I'm here to find out is: do I get 'em or do I get 'em? Answer me yes or no.

- All right, Esther. All right, I've got him. Come on, Norman. Come over to the table.

- Oh, hello, Vicki dear! Allow me to congratulate you! You must be terribly proud and happy tonight.

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And now I want to make a speech. Gentlemen of the academy and fellow suckers, I got one of those once for the best performance once. It don't mean a thing! People get'em every year!

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Won't they miss you? -Oh, no. They'll just look under the table and when they see I'm not there, they'll forget the whole matter.

A Star is Born Sound Clip

Audio quotes from the old-time radio play "A Star is Born" (1937), based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, first aired on September 13, 1937 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Janet Gaynor (Esther Blodgett), Robert Montgomery (Norman Maine), Lionel Stander (Libby)

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