3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Helen Hayes People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
3 December 2020 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.
