Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes MacArthurwas an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth10 October 1900
CountryUnited States of America
lying thinking solitude
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
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When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.
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All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.
simple artist ideas
The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.
home taught-us america
Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.
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There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.
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I cry out for order and find it only in art.
book wings
When books are opened, we discover that we have wings
birthday courage growing-up
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.
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Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
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Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
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Childhood is a short season.
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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
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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.