Helen Hayes Quotes

American - Actress October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993

If you rest, you rust. - Helen Hayes

If you rest, you rust. Helen Hayes

Rest, You, Rust

Childhood is a short season. - Helen Hayes

Childhood is a short season. Helen Hayes

Parenting, Childhood, Short, Season

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. - Helen Hayes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. Helen Hayes

Life, Seventy, Years, Hardest, Those

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

Inspirational, News, Heroes, Forgetting

Age is not important unless you're a cheese. Helen Hayes

Age, You, Important, Cheese, Unless

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

Love, Parents, Laughter, You, Wings

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

Love, Love Is, Story, Important, Capable

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

Life, Good, I Am, Theatre, Die, Confused

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. Helen Hayes

Climb, Accomplishment, Problem, Long

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. Helen Hayes

Courage, People, Grow, Tragedy, Earth

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. Helen Hayes

Truth, Die, Legends, Survive, Hard, Does

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

Picture, Detail, Look, Beyond, See, Poet

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

Age, People, Retirement, Rest, Me, Reach

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

Boss, Nature, People, Me, Run, Back

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

Work, Life, Day, Good, Achievement, Game

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

Morning, Patience, Coffee, Travel, Your

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. Helen Hayes

Famous, Slavery, Stardom, Gilded

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

Communication, Good, Habit, Grow, Talk

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

Art, Find, Cry, Order, Out, Only

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

Beautiful, Good, I Am, Think, Dream

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. Helen Hayes

Love, Truth, Love Is, Truth Is, Story

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. Helen Hayes

Christmas, Me, Die, Chair, Vanity, Bed

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life. Helen Hayes

Life, Play, Worst, Bach, Compared

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. Helen Hayes

Born, Choose, Cannot, Gesture, Which

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

Work, Hair, Color, End, Fate, Slave

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