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A Star is Born Quotes with Sound Clips

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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1 Nothing made me happier than to see all those cute little pranks of yours catch up with ya and land you on your celebrated face.

— Libby (Lionel Stander)

2 Tragedy is the test of courage.

3 Say, listen. You've fixed yourself nice and comfortable. You can live off your wife now. She'll buy the drinks and put up with you even if nobody else will.

— Libby (Lionel Stander)

4 Everyone in this world who ever dreamed about better things was laughed at. Don't you know that? -Oh, I suppose I do, but...

5 While you're settling the details, you don't mind if I go out and buy this woman a ring, do you? -Sure, go ahead! We want everything legal.

— Norman Maine (Robert Montgomery), Libby (Lionel Stander)

6 You're looking sad, darling. What other troubles have you got? -None. I was just playing a scene with myself.

— Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor), Norman Maine (Robert Montgomery)

7 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!

— Norman Maine (Robert Montgomery)

8 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.

9 Do you still love him or do you just feel sorry for him? -Oh, it's so hard to tell where one leads off and the other begins.

— Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor)

10 Oh, the first signs are always the same... not being able to remember your lines, the cameraman struggling to cover up your hangovers... all because you've got to have a good time every day, every night.

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