Helen Hayes Quotes - Page 2

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• Childhood is a short season.

  Helen Hayes

  Children, Childhood, Seasons

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• All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

  Helen Hayes

  Dream, Spring, Winter

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• We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

  Helen Hayes

  Age, May, Stones

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• Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

  Helen Hayes

  Fate, Hair, Color

  "On Reflection". Book by Helen Hayes, Ch. 4, 1968.

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• The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

  Helen Hayes

  Play, Theatre, Worst

  "On Reflection". Book by Helen Hayes, Ch. 14, 1968.

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• 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

  Love, Heart, Important

  Guideposts, January 1960.

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• In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

  Helen Hayes

  Pain, Finals, Needs

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• Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

  Helen Hayes

  Children, Responsibility, Discovery

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• When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.

  Helen Hayes

  Rust, Staying, Ifs

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• 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

  Self, Theatre, Actors

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.13, Rowman & Littlefield

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• People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

  Helen Hayes

  Retirement, People, Age

  Helen Hayes, Katherine Hatch (1991). “My life in three acts”

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• 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

  Confused, Theatre, Wicked

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

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• At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Laughing, Age

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• The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn't learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.

  Helen Hayes

  Strong, Horse, Theatre

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.49, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

  Helen Hayes

  Religious, Art, Successful

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• Our house was always filled with dogs... They helped make our house a kennel, it is true, but the constant patter of their filthy paws and the dreadful results of their brainless activities have warmed me throughout the years.

  Helen Hayes

  Family, Dog, Years

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

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• The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

  Helen Hayes

  Simple, Artist, Ideas

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Life, Years, Games

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• An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

  Helen Hayes

  Thinking, Actresses, Enough

  The Times, December 19, 1984.

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• There is only one terminal dignity - love.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Glimpse, Dignity

  Guideposts, January 1960.

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• When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

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  Beautiful, Daughter, Fathers Day

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• I cry out for order and find it only in art.

  Helen Hayes

  Art, Order, Architecture

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Christmas, Vanity, Bed

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• Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . . Go it old girl. You've done it well.

  Helen Hayes

  Girl, Queens, Discipline

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