Helen Hayes

• "Age is not important unless you're a cheese.“
• "People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.“
• "I cry out for order and find it only in art.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.“
• "When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.“
• "When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.“
• "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.“
• "Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.“
• "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.“
• "Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.“
• "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.“

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