Top 45 Helen Hayes Quotes
#2. 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.
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#3. The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
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#4. 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.
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#5. When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#9. I cry out for order and find it only in art.
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#10. The faster we travel, the less there is to see.
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#11. every professional was once a beginner
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#12. There is only one terminal dignity - love.
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#13. When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
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#14. The expert at anything was once a beginner.
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#15. Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery
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#16. We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart ... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together ... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
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#17. Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
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#18. When books are opened, we discover that we have wings
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#19. People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
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#20. 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.
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#21. One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
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#22. Yes, I have doubted. I have wandererd off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. It is beyond the logic I seek. It is intuitive - an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem to find my way home. My faith has wavered but has saved me.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.
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#25. 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.
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#26. The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
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#27. Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.
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#34. We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
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#38. At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!
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#39. Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
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#40. All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#44. Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
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#45. Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
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