Helen Hayes Quotes (20 quotations)
1. Age is not important unless you're a cheese. - Helen Hayes
2. Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. - Helen Hayes
3. 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. - Helen Hayes
4. An actress's life is so transitory-suddenly you're a building. - Helen Hayes
5. Childhood is a short season. - Helen Hayes
6. Every human being is born with a tragedy , and it isn't orginal sin. He is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes
7. 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. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes
8. I cry out for order and find it only in art. - Helen Hayes
9. If you rest, you rust. - Helen Hayes
10. 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
11. Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. - Helen Hayes
12. Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. - Helen Hayes
13. 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
14. My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.' - Helen Hayes
15. One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. - Helen Hayes
16. Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. - Helen Hayes
17. There is only one terminal dignity - love. - Helen Hayes
18. 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
19. We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on. - Helen Hayes
20. When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge." - Helen Hayes
2. Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. - Helen Hayes
3. 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. - Helen Hayes
4. An actress's life is so transitory-suddenly you're a building. - Helen Hayes
5. Childhood is a short season. - Helen Hayes
6. Every human being is born with a tragedy , and it isn't orginal sin. He is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes
7. 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. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes
8. I cry out for order and find it only in art. - Helen Hayes
9. If you rest, you rust. - Helen Hayes
10. 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
11. Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. - Helen Hayes
12. Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. - Helen Hayes
13. 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
14. My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.' - Helen Hayes
15. One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. - Helen Hayes
16. Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. - Helen Hayes
17. There is only one terminal dignity - love. - Helen Hayes
18. 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
19. We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on. - Helen Hayes
20. When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge." - Helen Hayes
