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Favorite Helen Hayes Quotes

1. "My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." ~ Helen Hayes
2. "The faster we travel, the less there is to see." ~ Helen Hayes
3. "The expert at anything was once a beginner." ~ Helen Hayes
4. "When books are opened, we discover that we have wings" ~ Helen Hayes
5. "You rest, you rust." ~ Helen Hayes
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7. "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
8. "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
9. "Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does." ~ Helen Hayes
10. "Stardom can be a gilded slavery." ~ Helen Hayes
11. "The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life." ~ Helen Hayes
12. "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
13. "We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on." ~ Helen Hayes
14. "Age is not important unless you're a cheese." ~ Helen Hayes
15. "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
16. "When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee." ~ Helen Hayes
17. "We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too." ~ Helen Hayes
18. "Childhood is a short season." ~ Helen Hayes
19. "If you rest, you rust." ~ Helen Hayes
20. "The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy." ~ Helen Hayes
21. "One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it." ~ Helen Hayes
22. "People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me." ~ Helen Hayes
23. "I cry out for order and find it only in art." ~ Helen Hayes
24. "Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture." ~ Helen Hayes
25. "Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end." ~ Helen Hayes

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It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India."
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