Hayley Mills famous quotes

03-17-2025

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

#Reading #Garden #Pursuit
I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
-- Hayley Mills

#Book #Cry
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
-- Hayley Mills

#Space #Horror
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.
-- Hayley Mills

#Mirrors #Light #Perspective
I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.
-- Hayley Mills

#Lazy #Acting #Creatures
In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.
-- Hayley Mills
It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.
-- Hayley Mills

#Cancer #Way #Make Sense
There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.
-- Hayley Mills

#New York #Energy #Helping
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
-- Hayley Mills

#Children #Growing Up #Acting
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.
-- Hayley Mills

#Character #Safety #Typical
I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.
-- Hayley Mills

#Jobs #People #Admire
Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.
-- Hayley Mills

#Thinking #Levels #Exam
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.
-- Hayley Mills

#Home #Son #Balance
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
-- Hayley Mills

#Learning #Golf #Games
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.
-- Hayley Mills

#Running #Learning #Practice
I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.
-- Hayley Mills

#Healing #Hands
Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
-- Hayley Mills

#Flower #Rose #Favourite
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.
-- Hayley Mills

#Hate #Sunday #Night
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.
-- Hayley Mills

#Jeans #Dresses #T Shirt
Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
-- Hayley Mills

#Cancer #Way
My best feature is my hair.
-- Hayley Mills

#Hair
My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
-- Hayley Mills

#Father #Inspiration #People
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
-- Hayley Mills

#Doors #Magic #Trying

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