Helen Hayes - Acting Quotes

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No matter how real the emotion, the habit of acting is hard to break. If you are a star, then it follows that you must twinkle mightily. There is a price for stardom and, unfortunately, one's family shares in the payment.

Helen Hayes

Acting in the theatre is the most direct and effective approach to emotion that has ever been devised, isn't it?

Helen Hayes

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.

Helen Hayes