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Could you do it? Could you do it even if it broke your heart? Because for every dream that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.

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

You can hear this line at 00:05:45 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You modern girls give me a pain!

- Why, when I wanted something better, I came across these plains in a prairie schooner with your grandfather.

- And don't think for a minute it was easy! We burned in summer, and we froze in winter.

- We used our guns when we needed food and then fought the Injuns to keep it.

- But we kept on going and we didn't complain because we were doing what we wanted to do! Can you understand that?

- Yes, I can.

- Could you do it? Could you do it even if it broke your heart? Because for every dream that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.

- I'm not afraid, granny.

- All right then. Here! Take this money. Go on, go on... and go to your Hollywood.

- But I can't take your money.

- And why not?

- It's your savings.

- Well, I haven't got anything to save up for now. Except my funeral. And I'm never going to die.

- Oh, granny, how can I ever thank you? Oh, granny. Granny darling.

[...]

A Star is Born Sound Clip

Janet Gaynor on the microphone recording for A Star is BornAudio 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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