81 Quotes by Helen Hayes

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

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.

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.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee

Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.