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Helen Hayes
American
Actress
About the author
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#People
#Being
#Earth
#Tragedy
#Sin
#Courage
Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Childhood
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Age
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Life
#Years
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Life
#Longevity
#Work
#Day
#Play
#May
#Achievement
#Eternity
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Talk
#Habit
#Order
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Patience
#Coffee
#Traveling
#Tolerance
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Slavery
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#First
#Christmas
#Bed
#Vanity
#Parting
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Love
#Dignity
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Life
#Play
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Love
#Dignity
#Truth
#Eternity
The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Love
#Eternity
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Life
#Theatre
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#People
#Age
#Rest
#Retirement
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Detail
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Heroes
#News
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Truth
#Legends
If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Rest
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Self
#Actors
I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Dream
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Work
#End
#Hair
#Fate
#Actors
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Art
#Order
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Love
#Books
#Parents
#Laughter
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Helen Hayes,
American
Actress
#Self
#Accomplishment