Helen Hayes

Actress

28 Quotes

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

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

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.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Childhood is a short season.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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.

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

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

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.

Setiap manusia di Bumi ini dilahirkan dengan tragedi, dan itu bukan dosa warisan. Ia lahir dengan tragedi bahwa ia harus tumbuh dewasa. Banyak orang tidak punya keberanian untuk itu.

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 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.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Umur tidak penting kecuali Anda adalah keju.

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

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.

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.

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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