Hayes Quotes

"It`s titillating to do an occasional film, but really, I don`t need it. Oh, I suppose, if you were a Helen Hayes, it might mean something if you left the business. You`d be depriving the show world of something. I`m depriving that world of nothing".

I guess if you see both of the movies (Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)) together, they sum up as an antiwar film. Whether it`s about territory or religion, war is horrifyingly and depressingly archaic. But I didn`t set out to make a war movie. I cared about those three fellows - Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon (John H. Bradley, Ira H. Hayes, `René A. Gagnon`) - the headliners on that war-bond circus. The young men were taken off the front lines, wined and dined, introduced to movie stars. But it felt wrong to them.

I said O.K. I was happy to give him that gift. And I watch every week because I`m supportive of Aaron; whether we`re together or not, I love him always. I think it`s a genius show. But...it is weird when I see her behaving in ways that are different from me. I`m really not that judgmental girl. But you have to let artists go where they go - quoted in The New York Times describing how she gave Aaron Sorkin permission to create the "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (2006) character "Harriet Hayes", based on her.

I don`t care if we ever throw the ball. I`m Woody Hayes. I didn`t realize that (we didn`t complete a pass). That`s shocking.

It`s titillating to do an occasional film, but really, I don`t need it. Oh, I suppose, if you were a Helen Hayes, it might mean something if you left the business. You`d be depriving the show world of something. I`m depriving that world of nothing.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

(on the wig he had to wear for _Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)_) "It made me look like Helen Hayes".

I really owe my first big opportunity to Irving Thalberg`s technique of remaking pictures to his satisfaction. I was hired for a bit part as Helen Hayes` son in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and, after shooting was completed, Thalberg kept adding scenes and reshooting so that, by accident my bit part became a significant role.

I`d like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

The main way he reminds me of coach Hayes is that he cares about people.

People always ask me how Woody Hayes was on our sideline,