Helen Hayes Short Quotes

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He could smell a sinner five miles away on a windless day.

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

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

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Reality was such a jungle — with no signposts, landmarks, or boundaries.

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What is talent? Perhaps it is an instinct for understanding the human heart.

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Talent may not be for sale, but the best way to package and display your gift is.

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Good actors sparking each other make for the wild fire that lights up the theater.

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I often wonder: Who will pick up the pieces of our damaged world? A poet, I think.

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We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

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One has to protect oneself from the earnest friends who would help you in adversity.

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Much of the disapproval we think is directed against us is, in fact, self-inflicted.

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Why endeavor to straighten the road of life? The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

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In the last states of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

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

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We grow up the day we are allowed to go somewhere alone and don't have to call home to say we arrived.

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Science is providing answers with such phenomenal speed that philosophy has lost track of the questions.

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Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

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Now that I have reached a goodly age — a grandmother's age, three things remain. Faith, love and memory.

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We in the theater are paradoxes. Our agonizing shyness is equalled only by the tremendous need for acceptance.

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

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

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Health care is news, partly because of costs and partly because of length of life, both of which exceed expectations.

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Through the years I have found it wonderful to acquire, but it is also wonderful to divest. It's rather like exhaling.

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I think it's very important to be alone. Loneliness is just an idea that, I'm afraid, has something to do with self-pity.

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The agonies of alcoholism have been familiar to me since early childhood. Childhood is rather brief under those conditions.

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