'Helen Hayes' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Famous quotes by 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."

"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."

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

"Childhood is a short season."

"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."

"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."

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee"

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

"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. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

"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."

"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."

"The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."

"If you rest, you rust."

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

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

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

"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."

"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

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