Hayley Mills Quotes

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

My best feature is my hair.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.