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Helen Hayes

Data di nascita: 10. Ottobre 1900
Data di morte: 17. Marzo 1993

Helen Hayes, nata Helen Hayes Brown , è stata un'attrice statunitense.

Minuta, con un viso grazioso e una carismatica presenza scenica, Helen Hayes è stata considerata una delle più celebri e dotate attrici teatrali del XX secolo.

Il 12 maggio 1986 il presidente degli Stati Uniti Ronald Reagan l'ha insignita della Medaglia presidenziale della libertà. Wikipedia

Frasi Helen Hayes

„I genitori ti insegnano ad amare, ridere e correre. Ma solo entrando in contatto con i libri, si scopre di avere le ali.“

—  Helen Hayes

„[Su Gary Cooper] Il suo istinto d'attore ci azzecca sempre. Cooper sa qual è la cosa giusta senza sapere come o perché lo sa. È un attore molto più bravo di quanto potrebbe mai pensare – quindi non diteglielo.“

—  Helen Hayes

Origine: citato in Mariapaola Pierini,Gary Cooper, il cinema dei divi, l'America degli eroi, Le Mani-Microart'S, 2011

„Quando invecchiamo, Dio fa in modo che la nostra vista s'indebolisca così che guardandoci allo specchio possiamo dire: "Non sono cambiata affatto."“

—  Helen Hayes

citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, giugno 1974

„If you rest, you rust.“

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—  Helen Hayes

My Life in Three Acts (1990) Ch. 19
Variante: If you rest, you rust.

„From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.“

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—  Helen Hayes

„The expert at anything was once a beginner.“

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—  Helen Hayes

„Age is not important unless you're a cheese.“

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—  Helen Hayes

„Stardom can be a gilded slavery.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 14

„Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 12

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

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—  Helen Hayes

My Life in Three Acts (1990) Ch. 19

„Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 1

„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. O'Neil's dramas are slapstick farces, Albee's riddles are simple explanations, Pinter's threatening and threatened anti-heroes are innocent babes — next to life and the living.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 14

„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.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 6

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

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 4

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

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—  Helen Hayes

A Gift of Joy (with Lewis Funke, 1965), p. 11

„The flattering, if arbitrary, label, First Lady of the Theatre, takes its toll. The demands are great, not only in energy but eventually in dramatic focus. It is difficult, if not impossible, for a star to occupy an inch of space without bursting seams, cramping everyone else’s style and unbalancing a play. No matter how self-effacing a famous player may be, he makes an entrance as a casual neighbor and the audience interest shifts to the house next door.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 4

„We are indeed a strange lot! There are times we doubt that we have any emotions we can honestly call our own. I have approached every dynamic scene change in my life the same way. When I married Charlie MacArthur, I sat down and wondered how I could play the best wife that ever was…. My love for him was the truest thing in my life; but it was still important that I love him with proper effect, that I act loving him with great style, that I achieve the ultimate in wifedom.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Thoughts on actors, Ch. 1
On Reflection (1968)

„The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn’t learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Origine: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 3

„The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of 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.“

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—  Helen Hayes

Guideposts (January 1960)

„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.“

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—  Helen Hayes

The Times (19 December 1984)

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