Author: Helen Hayes

Quotes

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

- 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.

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

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.

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

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

- Helen Hayes

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Helen Hayes

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

- Helen Hayes

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

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

- Helen Hayes

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