A biography for Helen Hayeshasn’t been written yet.
“If you rest, you rust.”
“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”
“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
“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.”
“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”
“The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.”
“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”
“Childhood is a short season.”
“One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.”
“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.”