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"Some day you won't laugh at me! I'm going out and have a real life! I'm gonna be somebody!"
"[last lines] Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."
"Do you mind if I take just one more look?"
"I don't want to sound immodest, but I think I've stripped a gear."
"[When Esther is accepting her Academy Award] I won one of those once - They don't mean a thing! What I want is a special award for the worst performance of the year. Lord knows I earned it!"
"[to Esther] All the experts seem to think that your type is a little mild for present day's taste. But I'd rather believe that tastes change, like eyebrows. And I think that also like eyebrows, tastes are going back to the natural."
"Now, I'm going to turn you over to our demon press agent, Libby. Don't let him frighten you. He has a heart of gold... only harder."
"If you've got one drop of my blood in your veins, you won't let Mattie or any of her kind break your heart, you'll go right out there and break it yourself."
"Tragedy is a test of courage. If you can meet it bravely, it will leave you bigger than it found you. If not than you will have to live all your life as a coward, because no matter where you may run you can never run away from yourself."
"[to the radio audience] It took me more than 70... more than 60 years to get here, and here I mean to stay!"
"For every dream of yours you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak."
"There are a couple of rats I raised from mice."
"That's a charming match. A nice girl like Vicki and Public Nuisance Number One."
"Casey Burke: His work is beginning to interfere with his drinking."
"Danny McGuire: The program tonight's gonna be swell. Take this fella Beethoven: I'm a pushover for him. And Chopin - well, he's not so dusty, either."
"Is the price of stardom a broken heart?"
"Fate raised her to fame - and killed the man she loved!"
"Janet Gaynor - Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester"
"Fredric March - Norman Maine"
"Adolphe Menjou - Oliver Niles"
"May Robson - Grandmother Lettie Blodgett"
"Andy Devine - Daniel "Danny" McGuire"
"Lionel Stander - Matt Libby"
"Owen Moore - Casey Burke"
"Peggy Wood - Miss Phillips"
"Elizabeth Jenns - Anita Regis"
"Edgar Kennedy - Pop Randall"
"J. C. Nugent - Mr. Blodgett"
"Guinn "Big Boy" Williams - posture coach"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.