Helen Hayes Quotes - BrainyQuote

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

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Truth Die Legends Survive

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Age You Important Cheese

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood Parenting Short Season

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

Inspirational News Heroes Forgetting

If you rest, you rust.

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

Life Hardest Years Seventy Ten

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.

Long Climb Problem Slow

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.

Life Good I Am Die

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.

Love Parents You Laughter

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.

Love Truth Is Love Is Truth

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.

Me Die Chair Bed

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

Morning Patience Coffee Travel

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

Me Age People Rest

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

Born Choose Cannot Gesture

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

Good Communication Grow Habit

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

Art Cry Find Only Out

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.

Good Beautiful I Am Think

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.

Life Good Work Day

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

Look Picture Detail See

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.

Love Love Is Important Story

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.

Courage People Grow Born

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Slavery Famous Stardom Gilded

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

Life Play Worst Compared

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

Work Hair Color End

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.

Nature Me People Boss

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