Helen Hayes Quotes

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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Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn’t learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.

If you rest, you rust.

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

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

An actress always knows when she’s hit it and mostly you haven’t; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that’s good enough for one life.

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

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

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.

Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition.

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of 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.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings.