Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes
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
An actress's life is so transitory - suddenly you're a building.
Helen Hayes
Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes
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
If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Helen Hayes
Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.
Helen Hayes
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
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
Helen Hayes
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes
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
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
There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes
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
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
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."
Helen Hayes
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes
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Type:
Actress
Date of Birth:
1900-10-10
Year of Death:
1993
Nationality:
American |
