Helen Hayes Quotes
"When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Coffee, Patience, Tolerance, Traveling)
"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: 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
(Related: Bed, Christmas, First, Parting, Vanity)
"There is only one terminal dignity - love."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Love, Dignity)
"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: 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
(Related: Love, Truth, Dignity, 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Theatre)
"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Age, People, Rest, Retirement)
"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Detail)
"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Heroes, News)
"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Truth, Legends)
"If you rest, you rust."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: 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
(Related: Actors, Self)
"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
(Related: Dream)
"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Work, Actors, End, Fate, Hair)
"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: 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
(Related: Love, Books, Laughter, Parents)
"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
(Related: Accomplishment, Self)
"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
(Related: People, Courage, Being, Earth, Sin, Tragedy)
"Childhood is a short season."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Childhood)
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Age)
"The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Work, Achievement, Day, Eternity, Longevity, May, Play)