Helen Hayes Quotes

I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.

Helen Hayes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993

Topics

NatureBossPeopleMeBackRun

I love a good party.

John Cameron Mitchell

LoveGoodPartyI Love

My husband is a huge source of support and love.

Jennine Capó Crucet

LoveSupportHusbandSourceHuge

I don't want to play a voice.

Andy Serkis

VoicePlayWant

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

HistorySmallGetCaughtForces

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.

Stephen Lang

LifeResponsibilityMeWritingDoing

I have this old Polo jacket. I've got to bring it wherever I go. And I have this one cape that somebody gave to me. It's this jumpsuit with this cape on the back that this one person gave to me. It's clutch.

Travis Scott

MeBackPersonGoJacketOld

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.

Trevor St. John

GoodMusicArtOpinionMusicians

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

Tony Dorsett

LifeMarriageMistakeMy LifeWorst

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

Louis Farrakhan

ConfidenceGodDeathManVictory

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

Lloyd Dorfman

BusinessWifeI AmYouSayBuild

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

Constance Zimmer

PoliticsThinkTryingPlayHollywood

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

Artur Rodzinski

LoveGreatWorldWillBecomeSecret

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