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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.

— Helen Hayes On Reflection (1968)

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People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach "retirement" age seem very admirable to me.

My Life in Three Acts (1990)

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.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

On Reflection (1968)

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

On Reflection (1968)

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

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