List of Helen Hayes Quotes

I Cry Out For Order And Find It Only In Art.

Victoria Had The Discipline Of Being A Queen To Help Her Through The Biggest Trial Of Her Life - When She Lost Albert And Faltered. I've Had The Discipline Of The Theatre To Help Me Over The Ups And Downs. A Wonderful Life . . Go It Old Girl. You've Done It Well.

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.

When It Comes To Staying Tuned: If You Rest, You Rust.

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.

An Actress Always Knows When She's Hit It And Mostly You Haven't; But Once Or Twice I Think I Hit It Right, So Maybe That's Good Enough For One Life.

When Charles First Saw Our Child Mary, He Said All The Proper Things For A New Father. He Looked Upon The Poor Little Red Thing And Blurted, "she's More Beautiful Than The Brooklyn Bridge."

One Has To Grow Up With Good Talk In Order To Form The Habit Of It.

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.

Perhaps We Have Been Misguided Into Taking Too Much Responsibility From Our Children, Leaving Them Too Little Room For Discovery

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.