81 Quotes by Helen Hayes

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

Childhood is a short season.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.