Listen to me, Esther, a career is a curious thing. Talent isn't always enough. You need a sense of timing - an eye for seeing the turning point or recognizing the big chance when it comes along and grabbing it. A career can rest on a trifle. Like - like us sitting here tonight. Or it can turn on somebody saying to you, 'You're better than that. You're better than you know.' Don't settle for the little dream. Go on to the big one...Scared? Scared to take the plunge? Don't ever forget how good you are. And hang on to that. Because I'm right. [pause] I just want to take another look at you.
Norman Maine
James Mason · 10 quotes
Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester
Judy Garland · 8 quotes
Matt Libby
Jack Carson · 3 quotes
Oliver Niles
Charles Bickford · 3 quotes
Danny Mcguire
Tommy Noonan · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester & Norman Maine (3)
A Star is Born quotes
Page 2 of 2Sometimes, I hate him. I hate his promises to stop, and then the watching and waiting to see it begin again. I hate to go home to him at nights and listen to his lies...I hate me cause I've failed too.
There's nothing left anymore. It happened long before last night...20 years of steady and quiet drinking do something to a man.
What is it that makes him want to destroy himself?...You don't know what it's like to watch somebody you love just crumble away bit by bit, day by day, in front of your eyes, and stand there helpless. Love isn't enough, I thought it was. I thought I was the answer for Norman. But love isn't enough for him.
You know, Oliver, I sometimes think I was born with a genius - an absolute genius - for doing the wrong thing.