Helen Hayes Quotes:- Helen Hayes (Born – October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years.
She eventually received the nickname “First Lady of American Theatre” and was one of 15 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (an EGOT).
Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Inspirational Helen Hayes Quotes And Sayings
“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
“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”-Helen Hayes
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”-Helen Hayes
“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”-Helen Hayes
“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
“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”-Helen Hayes
“If you rest, you rust.”-Helen Hayes
“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
Famous Helen Hayes Quotes About Hollywood
“From your parents, you learn to 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
“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
“One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.”-Helen Hayes
“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”-Helen Hayes
“Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the sidelines. For those who play the game, an hour maybe a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.”-Helen Hayes
“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
Top 10 Helen Hayes Quotes And Sayings
“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”-Helen Hayes
“Stardom can be a gilded slavery.”-Helen Hayes
“Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”-Helen Hayes
“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
“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”-Helen Hayes
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”-Helen Hayes
“Childhood is a short season.”-Helen Hayes
“The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.”-Helen Hayes
“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
“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
