Helen Hayes Quotes
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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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I cry out for order and find it only in art.
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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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When books are opened, we discover that we have wings
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Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
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Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
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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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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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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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Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.
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We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
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There is only one terminal dignity - love.
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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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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
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Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery
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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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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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The faster we travel, the less there is to see.
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There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.
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In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.
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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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When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.
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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
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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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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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Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
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Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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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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