Helen Hayes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“Stardom can be a gilded slavery.”

“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.”

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”

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

“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”

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

“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.”

“Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.”