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.
- Helen Hayes
Die, Bed, Other, Needing
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.
- Helen Hayes
Die, Young, Always, Wicked
I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.
- Helen Hayes
Nature, Boss, Rooms, Bossy
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.
- Helen Hayes
Love, Capable, Eternity, Love Is
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
- Helen Hayes
Life, Seventy, Hardest, Between
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
- Helen Hayes
Rest, Very, Honorably, Admirable
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
- Helen Hayes
Travel, Someone, Take, Tolerance
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
- Helen Hayes
Born, Which, Lives, Self-Consciousness
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.
- Helen Hayes
Love, Capable, Eternity, Permitted
Childhood is a short season.
- Helen Hayes
Childhood, Parenting, Short, Season
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
- Helen Hayes
Inspirational, News, Relish
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
- Helen Hayes
Hair, Fate, Slave, In The End
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
- Helen Hayes
Art, Find, Only, Order
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.
- Helen Hayes
Play, Eternity, Side, Longevity
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
- Helen Hayes
Die, Survive, Legends, Die Hard
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
- Helen Hayes
Poet, See, Only, Detail
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.
- Helen Hayes
Love, Discover, Other, Parents
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
- Helen Hayes
Famous, Slavery, Gilded, Stardom
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
- Helen Hayes
Play, Worst, Constructed, Compared
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
- Helen Hayes
Through, Everybody, However, Accomplishment
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.
- Helen Hayes
Think, Screen, Very, Leaving
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
- Helen Hayes
Age, Important, Unless, Cheese
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.
- Helen Hayes
Grow, Original, Human Being, Sin
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
- Helen Hayes
Communication, Habit, Grow, Grow Up
If you rest, you rust.
- Helen Hayes
Rest, You, Rust
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