Author: Helen Hayes

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood is a short season.

- Helen Hayes

I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.

I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.

- Helen Hayes

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

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

- Helen Hayes

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