Quotes by Helen Hayes

• One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
• When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
• Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
• 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.
• There is only one terminal dignity - love.
• The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
• Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
• We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
• Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
• If you rest, you rust.
• Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
• 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.
• Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
• I cry out for order and find it only in art.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Childhood is a short season.
• Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
• The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
• 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.
• Do not be afraid to be a beginner; every master was once a beginner.
• Do not be afraid to be a beginner, because even the greatest masters were once beginners themselves.
• Do not be afraid to be a beginner at something new, for even the greatest masters were once amateurs.
• Do not be afraid of being a beginner. Every expert was once a beginner.
• Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for
• The expert at anything was once a beginner
• The expert in anything was once a beginner.