A Star Is Born (1937)

Fredric March: Norman Maine

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Quotes 

• Norman Maine : Do you mind if I take just one more look?

• Norman Maine : Do you think I'm slipping?

  Oliver Niles : Can you take it?

  Norman Maine : Yeah, go ahead.

  Oliver Niles : The tense is wrong. You're not slipping - you've slipped.

• Oliver Niles : [Referring to Norman's accommodations at a sanatorium for treatment of alcoholism]  Are you comfortable here, Norman?

  Norman Maine : Comfortable? It's positively luxurious! They even have iron bars in the windows to keep out the draft.

• Norman Maine : What do they do with the actors while you're away?

  Matt Libby : Oh, they cut 'em into slices and fry 'em with eggs.

• Norman Maine : I don't want to sound immodest, but I think I've stripped a gear.

• Norman Maine : [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!