Hayley Mills Quotations

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces.

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 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.

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

There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.

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

I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

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

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

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

Working with Daddy - it's sort of like playing tennis against somebody, instead of just hitting them into a hedge where they sort of go in, you know.

You are either old souls who connect and share the same interest... or you are not.

It's like finding oneself amongst friends. People look at you as if they like you. That is, until they actually get to know you.

I mean, there's not an awful lot of limelight. Perhaps at premieres and the pictures and the people; that's all exciting. But the actual work, like today: it's just work; it's just the work I happen to do instead of going to an office and being a secretary or in a shop, you know?

My best feature is my hair.

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.

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