Helen Hayes Brown, 1900 - 1993
TIME magazine cover (30 December 1935)
Born: 10 October 1900, Washington City
Died: 17 March 1993, Nyack, New York
Her first stage appearance was at age five, by age ten she had her first film credit. Her stage career spanned 1905 to 1971, she retired partly due to asthma inflamed by stage dust; her films span the period from 1917 to 1978; and her TV credits are extensive. She was called the "First Lady of American Theatre" and is one of only ten persons to win an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony. She gave generously to theatre causes, and with her friend Lady Bird Johnson founded the National Wildflower Research Center. Ronald Reagan awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1986.
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- Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. permalink
Helen Hayes - Actors work and slave, and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. permalink
Helen Hayes - Age is not important unless you're a cheese. permalink
Helen Hayes - Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. permalink
Helen Hayes - An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life. permalink
Helen Hayes - Childhood is a short season. permalink
Helen Hayes - Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back. permalink
Helen Hayes - 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. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. permalink
Helen Hayes - 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. permalink
Helen Hayes - From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings. permalink
Helen Hayes - I cry out for order and find it only in art. permalink
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. permalink
Helen Hayes - If you rest, you rust. permalink
Helen Hayes - Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. permalink
Helen Hayes - Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. permalink
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