Best Helen Hayes Quotes About Life, Death And Love

Best Helen Hayes Quotes About Life, Death And Love

Helen Hayes MacArthur (October 10, 1900-March 17, 1993) was an American actress with an 80-year career. She finally gained the title "First Lady of American Theater" and was one of fifteen people who won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and an EGOT (Tony Award). Hayes has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, America's highest civilian award. She received the National Medal of the Arts in 1988. Her name-sake is the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which since 1984 have honored excellence in professional theater in greater Washington, D.C .. The old Fulton Theater on 46th Street in the Broadway Theater District of New York City was renamed The Helen Hayes Theater in 1955. The nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her memory when that venue was torn down in 1982. Helen Hayes is considered one of the 20th century theatre's greatest leading ladies.

Best Helen Hayes Quotes:

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes

Childhood is a short season.

Helen Hayes

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

Helen Hayes

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Helen Hayes

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

Helen Hayes

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

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

Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.

Helen Hayes

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

Helen Hayes

If you rest, you rust.

Helen Hayes

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

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

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

Helen Hayes

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