A Star Is Born (1937)

May Robson: Grandmother Lettie Blodgett

Quotes 

• Grandmother Lettie : 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.

• Grandmother Lettie : 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 you life as a coward, because no matter where you may run you can never run away from yourself.

• Grandmother Lettie : Esther, everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at, don't you know that? But there's a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be if only things were different. And the years roll on and by and by they grow and they forget everything, even about their dreams. Oh yes, you want to be somebody, but you want it to be easy. Oh you modern girls give me a pain!

• Aunt Mattie : Of course, no one ever listens to me!

  Grandmother Lettie : They do if they're within ten miles of ya.

• Grandmother Lettie : [speaking at the Hollywood premiere to the radio audience]  It took me more than 70... more than 60 years to get here, and here I mean to stay!

• Grandmother Lettie Blodgett : For every dream of yours you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.