Home Savings and Loan, 1970s
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Narrator | How do you get to the top of your field? | 0:00 |
Home Savings asked the first lady of the theater, | 0:02 | |
Helen Hayes. | 0:05 | |
- | I think it takes more stamina and tenacity | 0:06 |
to be an actor than anything else I can think of. | 0:09 | |
You need real courage, almost full heartiness | 0:11 | |
to go out and face the unknown in every new audience. | 0:15 | |
But you do need the audience. | 0:19 | |
You can't judge your performance by instinct alone. | 0:21 | |
You have to have somebody looking at you. | 0:24 | |
You can rehearse without an audience, | 0:27 | |
but you can't perform without one. | 0:28 | |
That's why I was never comfortable in movies or television. | 0:31 | |
I always felt I was pressing. | 0:34 | |
It was so easy. | 0:36 | |
I felt so at home when I walked on a stage. | 0:38 | |
It didn't matter if I was ill. | 0:41 | |
It didn't matter if I had bronchitis. | 0:42 | |
It didn't matter if I was exhausted. | 0:44 | |
I'd walk on the stage and that audience was there | 0:46 | |
and I was well again. | 0:51 | |
Narrator | There is only one Helen Hayes. | 0:52 |
There is only one number one anything. | 0:54 | |
In the field of savings and loans. | 0:56 | |
Home Savings is number one. | 0:58 |
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