Helen Hayes Quotes
An American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years.
(1900 - 1993)
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Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
[Actors]
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Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
[Actors]
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Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
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Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
[Success]
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Childhood is a short season.
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
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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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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.
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I cry out for order and find it only in art.
[Art]
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I was once the typical daughter, then the easily recognizable wife, and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.
[Self Knowledge]
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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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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
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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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My faith has wavered but has saved me.
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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
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Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
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People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
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Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
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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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