Helen Hayes Art Quotations

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.

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

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

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And 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.

It's a wonderful thing you are doing in Akron. Keeping this great theater alive for the performing arts and for your children.